Reports received here of the desecration of the Warsaw Jewish cemetery, following by a matter of days vandalization of the Jewish cemetery at Crakow, Poland, prompted the World Jewish Congress today to urge the Polish Government to take all necessary measures to arrest and punish those guilty of the outrages and “to prevent a recurrence of such monstrous crimes against the dead.”
The chairman of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen, Dr. Simon Friesner, charged today that “these despicable acts are an obvious result of the anti-Semitic campaign in Poland.” He said it was a “bitter irony” that the news of the desecration of the Warsaw Jewish cemetery was received on the anniversary of the battle of Monte Casino in which “Poles and Jews died together in a war against a common enemy.”
The 25th anniversary of the battle was observed today in London at synagogue services memorializing the Polish Jewish soldiers who fell in that battle.
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