Poles Break Down Section of Ghetto Wall in Demonstration Against Anti-semitism

A group of Poles in Warsaw recently broke down a section of the ghetto wall as an “answer to Nazi attempts of spreading racial hatred in Poland,” the American Friends of Polish Democracy, headed by Prof. Robert M. MacIver of Columbia University, reported here today.

“This is an extraordinary deed, considering that it had to be achieved during one single night–in fact, under the eyes of the German police,” the report said. “To avoid any misunderstandings as to the reasons of the destruction of the ghetto wall, a Polish flag has been placed over its ruins.”

The report also quoted a Pole recently arrived in the United States as stating that a League to Fight anti-Semitism was organized by a group of prominent Polish democratic intellectuals in an important Eastern Polish town. The league’s activities were checked when some of its members were arrested, but other groups of the same character have sprung up, the informant said.

“Several secret meetings were devoted to the formulation of the program and discussion of methods to combat anti-Semitism,” it was said. “The speakers of these meetings emphasized that friendship among the nationalities of Poland is fundamental to the successful prosecution of the struggle against German and Russian domination and also declared that full collaboration between Gentiles and Jews will provide one of the basic conditions towards the solution of their common problem.”