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Soviet Refuses Permission to Polish Embassy to Visit Arrested Polish-jewish Leaders

January 13, 1942
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No member of the Polish embassy staff in Soviet Russia has as yet been permitted to visit Henryk Ehrlich and Victor Alter, arrested Polish-Jewish socialist leaders, in the Soviet jail where they are confined, but Stanislaw Kot, the Polish Ambassador, has received permission to send them food, information received here today by the Polish government revealed.

The information, coming from the Polish embassy in Kuibyshev, says that Ehrlich is ill and under the care of the prison doctor. Instructions were again cabled by the Polish Foreign Office here to Ambassador Kot in Kuibyshev advising him to do everything possible to obtain the release of the two Polish-Jewish labor leaders.

The Polish government today also cabled Kot asking him to obtain details concerning the circumstances of the death of Prof. Moses Schorr, Chief Rabbi of Warsaw, in Soviet Russia on July 8, 1941.

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