Demands for suppression of Nationalist anti-Semitic attacks were voiced in the Senate today following disorders in the town of Przytyk, District of Radom, during which, according to a late check-up, two Jews were killed, eleven persons seriously injured and thirteen hurt less seriously.
As a result of the disorders, four Jews were arrested on the charge of anti-Semites that they had fired on the attackers from a window, wounding one Christian. Police said today they had found no weapons on the arrested Jews.
Additional police reinforcements were on the scene of the riots, sent from the nearby cities of Radom and Kielce. The town presented an appearance of ruin, with windows of all Jewish-owned shops smashed and many showing signs of having been pillaged. Raiders even slashed bedclothes and mattresses in Jewish homes.
A number of Senators, including former Premier Artur Sliwinski, Senator Jaroszewicz and the Jewish Senators, Moses Schorr and Trockenheim, declared on the Senate floor that court sentences for anti-Semitic rioters were too mild.
Senator Sliwinski spoke of the danger of secret Nazi organizations in Poland. He asserted that National Democratic patriotism “is a caricature of true nationalism,” adding that it was unjust to incite the Christian population against the Jews. Senator Jarosewicz supported him, accusing the police of not acting against the rioters.
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