Adolph Held, chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee, today announced that the Committee has been authorized by representatives of the Polish Government in the United States to compile and submit lists of Polish Jews who have been interned in Soviet Russia either as war prisoners or as undesirable civilians. Beginning with the coming week, these lists will be carried by a Polish diplomatic courier in order that the internees may be released under the recent Russo-Polish pact.
In making this announcement, Mr. Held urged every Jew in the United States who has relatives interned in Soviet Russia as Polish citizens, to communicate the names and addresses of these relatives to the Jewish Labor Committee.
The Agudas Israel office in New York similarly announced today the registration of interned relatives of American Jews. The Agudah lists will be sent to the Agudah office in London for submission to the Polish Government-in-exile there, which is to secure the release of the internees from the Soviet authorities.
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