Seventy-nine Jews have been killed and more than 500 wounded in Polish disorders during the last six months, according to a survey made by Dr. Bernhard Kahn, European director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Reporting his survey in an address to the Federation of Jewish Relief Organizations last night, Dr. Kahn declared that anti-Semitism in Poland has never been as well organized as today. He urged that the plight of the 5,000,000 Eastern European Jews not be forgotten because of the situation of the Jews in Germany.
He asserted that while the Polish Government was not anti-Semitic, it was doing nothing or almost nothing in an active way to help the Jewish population.
Neville Laski, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, deplored the fact that there has never been a consolidation of Jewish relief effort.
“Maybe the time will come,” he stated, “when the Jewish community the world over will interest itself not in Polish Jewry, in Rumanian or even in German Jewry, but in Jewry as a whole, that it may think it necessary from the Jewish viewpoint to regard the world as one battle front, not as a series of battle fronts.”
“We are dealing with the problem piecemeal instead of as a whole,” he added.
Tribute was paid to Dr. Kahn on completion of thirty-five years of service to Jewry by Mr. Laski, Nahum Sokolow, honorary president of the World Zionist Organization, and other speakers. Dr. Kahn will celebrate his sixtieth birthday April 9.
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