Reprinted from Yesterday’s Late Edition
The campaign against the Jews conducted by the anti-Semitic National Radicals, driven under cover by the government activities following the assassination of Minister of the Interior Pieracki, broke out today in the form of handbills distributed to Sunday worshippers in the Warsaw Catholic churches accusing the Jews of responsibility for Col. Pieracki’s murder.
The leaflets, which were mimeographed, asserted that the Jews killed Col. Pieracki for profit. The Minister of the Interior had generally been considered most friendly to the Jews and had taken firm measures to suppress the anti-Semitic excesses of the Naras and the National Democrats (Endeks).
Copies of the leaflets were turned over to the authorities by the Jewish community organization in the hope that the police might discover the source of the provocation against the Jews.
Something of a sensation was caused here today by the assertion of the Tydzien Robotniczy, weekly newspaper of the Polish Socialist Party, that Jan Mosdorf, commander of the anti-Semitic Naras, is the grandson of a baptized Jew. Mosdorf, who was recently freed after being arrested in connection with the Pieracki murder, was described by the murder, was described by the paper as the grandson of a converted Jew whose name orginally was Moses Dorf.
The Polish authorities, who have been acting against members of the Left as well as of the Right today arrested Zerubacel and Natan Buxbaum, leaders of the Left Poale Zion, Zionist labor group, and Joseph Leszozynski and Pinchas Schwartz, editors of the Folkszeitung, newspaper issued by the Bund, the Jewish Socialist party.
The reasons for their arrest could not be ascertained to###.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
