Jewish leaders in Warsaw have recovered 100,000 volumes of Jewish religious works and modern Yiddish literature stored by the Nazis during the occupation in three churches in Poznan, it was reported here today.
Most of the books were taken by the Nazis from synagogues and libraries in Lodz and in Plock. Since the transportation of the volumes was entrusted to British and French war prisoners who appreciated their value and handled them with care, they are in good shape.
A shipment of modern works was brought this week to Warsaw and handed over to the Central Committee of Polish Jews. The remainder have been transferred to a building which before the war was a home for aged Jews. It is understood that the religious volumes, many of them rare, will be shipped to Palestine or to the United States.
The Council of Jewish Communities today revealed that it has succeeded in discovering intact the famous religious library of the Yeshivath Chachme Lublin which was the largest Jewish theological seminary in Poland before the war.
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