Admiration for the heroic and desperate resistance which the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto are offering the Nazis was expressed here last night by the Polish Premier, Gen. Sikorski, in a radio broadcast to the people of Poland.
The head of the Polish Government-in-Exile and Commander-in-chief of the Polish Army expressed gratification at the fact that Poles are lending their aid to the Jews in the ghetto. He called upon every Pole in occupied territory to support the suffering Jews.
Reports from Switzerland reaching here today state that “terrible massacres” of Jews are being carried out by the Nazis in the Polish city of Zakopane, once a favorite health resort. The reports are credited to the Swiss newspaper “Die Schweiz.”
The headquarters of the Polish-Jewish Relief Fund here today received information revealing that two of the most famous rabbis of Poland-Pinchas Twersky, known as the “Ostiller Rebbe,” and Isaac Nahum Twersky, known as the “Ravaruskker Rebbe”-have been massacred by the Nazis together with their entire families.
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