Several Jews were wounded today during anti-Jewish outbreaks in the former German city of Stettin, which is now a part of Poland. The disturbance was provoked by a group of hoodlums when a transport of Polish Jewish repatriates from Russia arrived there. Ten of the attackers were arrested.
Eleven Nazi guards at the Stutthof concentration camp, including five women, were sentenced to death today by a court in Danzig on the charge that they tortured to death thousands of Jews and Poles. Prior to issuing the sentence, the court went to the camp and visited the torture and gas chambers. They were shown huge heaps of shoes taken from the victims.
A monument commemorating the Jewish leaders who died in the battle of the Warsaw Ghetto was unveiled here today at the Jewish cemetery. Representatives of various political parties and Jewish groups spoke. Adolf Berman, Jewish partisan leader during the war and deputy in the Polish National Assembly, paid tribute to the role of Jewish workers in leading the fight for Poland’s freedom.
A delegation of the Jewish Agency, composed of MR. Epstein and Dr. A. Kurtz, today paid a visit to the commissioner of the National Loan for the Reconstruction of Poland and presented $500 to him as a taken contribution by Palestine Jewry to the reconstruction of the Polish republic.
In Katowica a conference called to discuss resumption of Polish-Palestine commercial relations concluded today. Dr. Grosskopf, president of the Polish-Palestinian Chamber of Commerce, presented an export-import plan under which Palestine would import from Poland iron, zinc, furniture and other articles, while Poland would import from Palestine citrus fruit, oil and other commodities.
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