Thirty-four Polish Jews were injured today during a series of attacks on Jews made by the newly formed National Radical anti-Semitic group in various parts of Poland. Everywhere the attacks of the Naras were met by the sturdy resistance of the Jews, who in many cases put them to flight unassisted by the police.
The worst excesses against the Jews occurred in Biaylestok, where Naras attacked a procession of Jewish youths returning from the forest where they had celebrated Lag B’Omer with games. The excursions had deliberately been postponed by the Jewish groups until today, although originally scheduled to be held May 3. Since that day was a Polish national holiday, the excursions were post-poned until today.
Naras armed with knives and cudgels attacked the procession returning in the evening. The Jewish youth, mostly Revisionists and former Polish army men, resisted the Naras who ran away and invaded the Piaski quarter of Biaylestok, inhabited mainly by indigent Jews. There too the attack was met with a fierce resistance, until police intervened and dispersed the attackers.
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