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Ben Gurion Invites Polish Jewish Youth to Visit Kibbutzim

May 31, 1957
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Poland’s Minister of Agriculture, Edward Ochab, will be given a special message from Israel’s Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, inviting Poland to send 30 youths to work and study in kibbutzim here. The invitation will be relayed by Boleslaw Drobner, dean of the Polish Sejm (Parliament), and chairman of the Polish Parliamentary delegation which today concluded its visit to this country.

Mr. Drobner, a Jew, and the members of his delegation, departed for Warsaw today. Before he left, Mr. Drobner and Mr. Ben Gurion had a long talk. In an address at a farewell function tendered by Foreign Minister Golda Meir, Mr. Drobner scored pro-Stalin regime in his country which was overturned by the Polish “October Revolution” which placed Wladyslaw Gomulka at the head of the Polish Communist Party. He could not have visited Israel before the Gomulka regime came to power. He called anti-Semitism in his country “an imported article.”

One of Mr. Drobner’s tasks while visiting this country was to contact Israelis who had emigrated from Cracow, Poland, to receive from them authentic information about the famous Old Synagogue in Cracow which had been all but destroyed during the Nazi occupation. The synagogue, which Nazi troops had used as a stable, will be rebuilt by the Polish Government and turned into a museum.

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