High Soviet authorities this week ordered the return to the Jewish community of a four-story building in Praga, a Warsaw suburb, which had been occupied as a Red Army hospital.
The building belonged to the Warsaw Jewish Community before the war and is one of the few Jewish structures that remained intact. It housed a Jewish trade school, a synagogue and other Jewish institutions. Although the Red Army hospital was recently removed from the building, the local Soviet military authorities in Praga refused to restore the building to the Jewish community without an order from higher authorities.
The Central Committee of Polish Jews, therefore, telegraphed a request for the building to Marshal Rokossowski, head of the Russian military forces in Poland. As a result, the building will be returned to the Jewish community within a short time. Leaders of the community will use it to house a number of children’s institutions and will re-open the synagogue.
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