A sharp protest against the Warsaw Jewish community’s neglect of the Warsaw Jewish cemetery has been lodged with Folkstimme, Yiddish daily and organ of the Association of Polish Jewish Cultural Organizations.
The protest, which appeared in the latest issue of Folkstimme received here today, accused the Jewish community of permitting large sections of the ancient cemetery to become “a jungle, overgrown with weeds and brush, and in many cases monuments and gravestones of great historic value have fallen and are uncared for.”
According to the protest, signed by an I. Tirman, the community has kept the entrance to the cemetery and some of its central aisles in good condition, “but these are only a front for the general tragic neglect.” The writer asked the community, Jewish artists and historians to join in creating a fund “to maintain this cemetery in the dignity deserved by the folk heroes and martyre who are buried there after having given their blood and their lives.”
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