The Polish Jewish Ex-Servicemen’s Association has sent a protest to the Polish government in Warsaw against the planned demolition of the last standing section of the old Warsaw Ghetto wall. The section of wall 3 a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943 and the Jews who died in it, Simon Frisner, Association chairman, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that their protest was sent directly to Warsaw because of the unsatisfactory response to an earlier communication sent through the Polish Ambassador in London.
Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon told the Knesset in Jerusalem several days ago before leaving on a visit to London that the Israeli government was aware of reports that the Warsaw Municipal Council planned to pull down the wall. If this happens it will be “a blow against history, against culture and against Jewry,” Allon said.
Joel Gang, a journalist and writer, told the JTA that he recalled that in 1945, the late Michael Sylberberg, then the chairman of the Jewish religious community in Warsaw, had proposed that the bricks from the Ghetto wall should be incorporated in Jewish public buildings in Palestine and throughout the world as a tribute to the heroic revolt. But the idea never materialized. Gang said.
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