Eight Jews and four non-Jews have been interned in the Kartuz-Bereza concentration camp in connection with runs on Warsaw banks last Saturday, which led to anti-Semitic disorders, it was announced today in an official communique.
The statement blamed a small group of speculators for the bank runs. Jewish circles held the communique disproved the allegation that Jews were exclusively responsible for the runs.
The rioting which arose from this allegation was made the subject of a long interpellation by the Jewish Senator, Jacob Trockenheim, in the Senate. He charged that the extreme fascist Phalangists had organized the excesses on the pretext that the Jews had caused the bank run.
Giving a detailed and graphic account of the disorders, Senator Trockenheim pointed to several cases in which, he said, police refused to intervene. The excesses were “an organized and carefully planned action of the most brutal nature,” he declared.
He concluded by asking Premier Felice Marjan-Skladkowski what steps he intended to take to protect Jewish citizens, punish the guilty and what measures were proposed against organizations conducting carefully-planned propaganda leading to anti-Jewish excesses.
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