The Esperanto Society of Poland has protested to the Warsaw mayor against the city’s decision to rename Zamonhof Street. The city plans to give the street the name it carried some 20 years ago before it was changed in honor of Ludvik Zamanhof, a Polish Jew who founded Esperanto. The new name will be “Dzika Street.”
The Polish Government today ordered municipal authorities throughout the country to return to local Jewish communities tombstones stolen from Jewish cemeteries by the Nazis and used as building materials. The order said that where there is no doubt of the identity of the stones, the municipality will return them and itself bear all costs involved in replacing them in the structures of which they are now a part. However, if the identity of the stones are in doubt, the authorities will return them to the Jews, but the latter will bear the expenses involved.
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