Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich, the two most prominent leaders of the Jewish Socialist Bundist in Poland who were recently released from Soviet imprisonment, today issued an appeal in Kuibyshev, the temporary capital of Soviet Russia, urging the Polish Jews now on Russian soil to join the Polish army which is being formed there.
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