The plight of 1,700 Polish Jews in the notorious Mathausen camp in Austria, who have not yet been contacted by any Jewish organization, was told here by Simon Roth, a Jewish engineer from Warsaw who arrived in Paris today from Mathausen.
These Jews are being offered a choice between declaring their allegiance to the Polish Government in Lublin and being repatriated to Poland, or adhering to the Polish Government-in-Exile in London with the possibility of eventually being drafted into the Polish Army, Mr. Roth reported. He added that what the liberated Jews actually want is to emigrate to Palestine.
(The Jewish Chronicle in London today carries an interview with John Parker, a British parliamentarian who was a member of an official delegation which recently visited Russia, declaring that the Polish Government in Lublin does not desire the return of the Jews who fled from Poland to Russia after the German invasion. Mr. Parker adds that Polish Jews in Russia would prefer to join their relatives in the United States, rather than remain in the USSR or return to Poland.)
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