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Australian Jewish Council Expresses ‘regret’ over Condition of Jews in Poland

June 27, 1968
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The executive council of Australian Jewry said today it had expressed “regret” concerning anti-Semitic developments in Poland in a letter to B. Tiaskowski, the Polish Consul General in Australia. The Council also sent a memorandum to External Affairs Minister P.M. Hasluck over the plight of the remaining Jews in Arab countries.

The letter to the Consul General emphasized that Australian Jewry included thousands of Jews of Polish origin who had found refuge in Australia from the “reactionary anti-Semitic Polish regimes” of earlier years. The letter added that such Australian Jews “feel very deeply the dark shadow which has fallen on the remnants of Polish Jewry’ and urged a return by the Polish Government to “ideals of justice and humanity.”

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