(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Anti-Semitism is rampant in the Communist youth organization, Comsomol, reports published in the “Comsomolskaya Pravda”, official organ of the youth movement, show.
A Jew should not be a Communist was the opinion expressed by the Jewish student, Samuel Skliar, who had been active in the Comsomol leadership, in an address he delivered at a party meeting in Dnepro Petrovsk. The “Comsomolskaya Pravda” quotes Skliar as saying: “I am accustomed to persecutions but cannot stand it any longer.”
Skliar said that for two years he and Zizemsky were the only Jewish students at a technical school. They were tortured daily. Zizemsky is now mentally ill, he said.
In giving his reasons for resigning from the party, Skliar said he is convinced a Jew must abstain from all social work. The paper demands an investigation of anti-Semites within the organization.
The “Comsomolskaya Pravda” also reports the anti-Semitic practice of three members of the Rostov Comsomol. Chalin, Krivtzoff and Klotchai, who systematically tortured Mitia lishtein, a member of the Comsomol who lived at a Caucasian resort. They poured water into Ilshtein’s bed and beat him into a state of hysterics. When Selezneff, a Russian member of the Comsomol attempted to defend Ilshtein, they also attacked him. Selezneff is now in the hospital.
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