The International League for the Repatriation of Russian Jews has called upon the Polish government to withdraw its plans for uprooting the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, replacing it with a housing project, it was announced by Rabbi Benjamin Blech, League president. He reported that leaders of the Warsaw Jewish community urged one of the League’s officers who was recently there to carry the message to the West.
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