Passover was being observed by Jews today in Poland. Hungary and Czechoslovakia and East Germany, according to reports received today from Warsaw. At least 2, 000 Jews attended communal seders last night in various cities in Poland.
At Wroclaw, Poland, the city’s central bakery acquired new matzot-baking machinery last winter and reportedly has turned out 120 tons of matzot. In Czechoslovakia, large quantities of matzot have been manufactured by the state bakery for distribution not only to Jewish communities in Czechoslovakia but also in East Germany. Wines bottled especially for Passover certified as “kosher I ‘Pesach,’ have been sent to many Jewish communities beyond the Iron Curtain from Bulgaria.
Five thousand copies of the Haggadah have been shipped from London by Keren Hatorah, the fund for Jewish religious education, to Jewish communities in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary.
(Special Passover services–with American opera star Jan Peerce chanting portions of the Haggadah–were broadcast by Radio Liberty last night to many regions of the Soviet Union. The broadcast, transmitted in time for the first seder, will be repeated every night during the Passover holiday. In addition to the Haggadah in Hebrew, the program includes messages in Russian, Ukrainian and other languages spoken by various groups in the USSR.)
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