Jewish newspapers published an appeal today for urgent relief of the Jewish population of Czyzew, town in the Bialystok district, which last week was subjected to savage pogrom.
According to the papers, all Jewish storekeepers of the town have been “sentenced to destruction” by anti-Semitic elements.
A representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee returned from Czyzew this morning with a list of casualties, confirming that one Jew had been killed, eleven seriously wounded and many others slightly injured. Four of the wounded, three of them women, are in a grave condition in a Warsaw hospital.
High district authorities were still in Czyzew today investigating the pogrom. Three score police were reported wounded in the disorders.
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