Jewish Representatives in Poland Mourn Deputy Holowka Vicepresident of Government Party Assassinated

Representatives of the Agudath Israel, the Central Unions of Jewish Merchants, of Jewish Small Traders, and of Jewish Artisans, and many Rabbis and delegations from Jewish Communities in the provincial towns followed to-day the funeral of Deputy Tadeusz Holowka, the Vice-President of the Government Club of Deputies, who was assassinated this week in Lemberg by Ukrainian insurrectionaries. Deputy Rabbi Dr. Thon, the President of the Jewish Club of Deputies, sent a message of condolemee in the name of the Jewish Club of Deputies, to the President of the Government Club of Deputies, Colonel Valeri Slawek. Deputy Rabbi Lewin, of the Agudath Israel, also sent Colonel Slawek a memorial address which he could not deliver himself because it was in a Christian cemetery.

The Jewish press pays tribute to Deputy Holowka as the man who has been in actual charge lately of the minorities problem in Poland, and a warm friend of the Jews.

We mourn his tragic death, says “Unzer Express”, because he was one of the few men in Poland who had a definitely favourable attitude to the minorities in general and the problems of Jewish life in Poland in particular. When he was in the Polish Socialist Party he fought bravely for the rights of the national minorities, and demanded just treatment for them to the extent of complete autonomy, even. He always had an open heart and an open eye towards the Jews when many Polish party leaders, including leaders of the Polish Socialist Party, had not the slightest understanding for the Jewish demands. Even lately, when he became leader of the Government camp, he did not betray his past, and to the end he was as always the friend of the national minorities, and especially of the Polish Jews.