It is reported from Lwow that a large number of well-known Jewish personalities from Poland are at present in that Soviet-held city. In addition to former Deputy Emil Sommerstein, who is still under arrest, the following Polish Jewish leaders are listed as in Lwow:
Chief Rabbi Moses Schorr and his wife; Judge Maximilian Fride, Advocate I. Baumberg, president of the Jewish Lawyers’ Association of Poland, and Advocate Saper, secretary of the association, with his wife; the lawyer Margolis; the industrialist Kamieniecki and his daughter; Elias Majur, former president of the Warsaw Jewish Community; Maurice Mayzel, last president of the Warsaw Jewish Community and former Warsaw Deputy mayor; Dr. G. Birstein, director of the Union of Jewish Tradesmen in Poland; Engineer Maurice Zeidenman and Mr. J. Zalszupin.
All the above persons, it has been ascertained, are well and at liberty. Among the Polish refugees at present in Geneva are Dr. Rosa Lindenbaum-Horowitz, member of the administrative council of the Women’s International Zionist Organization, and Mme. Dr. Saba Lindenbaum-Gottlieb, member of the organization’s executive committee.
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