At least ten Jews were killed and 500 wounded in a Warsaw pogrom organized by the German minority in the former Polish capital, it was reported by the Manchester Guardian today from neutral sources.
(A Paris dispatch to the J.T.A. yesterday reported a five-day pogrom in Warsaw but gave no estimate of the number of casualties. It said the excesses started on Easter Sunday.)
The Guardian said the pogrom began with an attack upon Jews waiting in front of food stores at the entrance to the ghetto and soon spread throughout the city. “For three days,” the newspaper reported, “Jews were hunted in the streets, attacked and beaten. In some cases crowds broke into Jewish houses. Looting also took place.
“The pogrom was started by members of the German minority in Warsaw, whose numbers appear to have grown since the entrance of the German forces into Poland, and the Police do not appear to have made any effort to stop it. It is indeed said that in some cases the police helped the attackers.”
The German press in Warsaw, the newspaper continued, later wrote concerning “measures which had to be taken to keep the Jews in their place.”
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