The World Conference of Polish Jews concluded here last night, after adopting a number of resolutions asking for indemnification and reparations from Germany for destroyed Jewish property in Poland valued at five billion dollars.
The three hundred delegates from twenty countries attending the conference decided to establish a World Federation of Polish Jewry and elected Dr. Joseph Tenenbeum as president of the new organization. The resolutions adopted call for an international law to outlaw anti-Semitism and similar national and local legislation; urge representation on the War Crimes Commission; demand that Jewish tribucals judge Nazis who committed crimes against Polish Jewry; and insist that reparation and indemnification to the Jewish victims and the Jewish people are the keystone to all international settlements.
Other resolutions demand that rehabilitation battalions be supplied by the German people to rebuild the Jewish communities in Poland that a Jewish Reconstruction Agency with adequate representation and equipped with full authority be established; that Jews be given full membership in the new security league and the future international court, and that Palestine be established as a Jewish Commonwealth.
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