The appeal of Jewish leaders in Poland to Jews abroad “to give brotherly help for the ruined Polish Jewry along proportions required for the three and a half million Jews in Poland” is a document which will be quoted in Jewish history. It is the cry of one of the largest communities in the world. It comes like a call from a sinking ship.
Polish Jewry today must be saved. The greatest efforts must be made to take as many Jews as possible out of the country. Those of the Polish Jews who wish it, should be given the chance to go to Biro-Bidjan. Those of them who could be admitted into Palestine, should be enabled to go to Palestine. The maximum energy should be concentrated to assist a large emigration of Jews from Poland, no matter where they wish to go.
Simultaneously, serious efforts should be made to alleviate the position of those Jews who must remain in Poland, by granting them relief from abroad and by exercising all the pressure possible upon the Polish government to understand that the Jews, too, are citizens of the Polish Republic and must be treated as such.
Polish Jewry must be helped!
MUZZLING THE PRESS
A year ago, when the Austrian government deported the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from Vienna for bringing the situation of Austrian Jewry to the attention of the world, the authorities were under the impression that this deportation would lead to the muzzling of the press on the anti-Semitic policy which the government had adopted.
Now, when such newspapers as The Manchester Guardian, The London Times and The New York Times come out from time to time with exposures on the anti-Jewish discrimination which the Austrian government encourages, the Austrian Minister of foreign affairs, Berger Waldenegg, threatens to persecute foreign correspondents responsible for such exposures.
No terror will prevent the press of the world from watching the Jewish situation in Austria and bringing it to public notice.
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