Why Jews repatriated from the Soviet Union to Poland are entitled to receive and from foreign Jewish organizations and long-term residents of Poland are not entitled to such aid, has been asked by many needy Jews who have never left Poland, it was reported in the Warsaw newspapers reaching here today.
The press stressed that the long term Jewish residents are aware that the Polish authorities have permitted foreign Jewish relief organizations –like the JDC and ORT–to provide aid only to repatriated families. These Jews, the Warsaw newspapers reveal, are beginning to ask why such aid should not also be permitted for their families. They argue that there is plenty of poverty among the non-repatriates in Poland.
The Warsaw press also deals with the problem of education of the Jewish youth of the repatriated families. They have established that many of the Jewish youths, having been born and raised in Russia, have no knowledge of the Polish language, and that this impedes their study.
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