Fifty Jewish students were injured today, two of them seriously, in an anti-Jewish riot which caused the closing for an indefinite period of the University of Warsaw.
The riot, precipitated by student members of the anti-Semitic National Democratic Party (Endeks), exceeded in its ferocity any previous anti-Jewish excesses at the university.
Endek students armed with clubs to which razor blades had been attached brutally beat the Jewish students, many of them women, whom they dragged from laboratories and threw from classroom windows. Twenty-four of those injured had to be given medical aid.
Police, summoned by the rector, succeeded in restoring order, making numerous arrests.
The riot was said to have resulted from agitation by the Endeks for reduction of tuition fees. Similar riots, following Endek demands for segregation of Jewish students in the classrooms and institution of a numerus clausus, recently resulted in the university’s being closed for about two weeks.
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