Poland’s new Minister of the Interior, Wladyslaw Wicba, told a reporter from the Yiddish program of Radio Warsaw, in a broadcast to Jewish listeners abroad, that Jewish repatriates from the Soviet Union will be resettled in towns where there is a Jewish population, so that their cultural requirements can be met.
Three former German towns in Lower Silesia were selected for the settlement of Jewish repatriates, he stated. They are Lignica (Liegnitz) Swindnica (Schweidnitz) and Dzierzoniow (Reichenbach). Mr. Wicha denied that the Soviets were making difficulties in granting exit permits to former citizens of Poland who are of Jewish nationality, providing only that they held Polish citizenship in 1939.
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