Anti-semitism Rampant in ‘comsomol,’ Communist Youth Organization

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Anti-Semitism is rampant in the Communist youth organization, Comsomol, reports published in the “Comsomolskaya Pravda”, official organ of the youth movement, show.

A Jew should not be a Communist was the opinion expressed by the Jewish student, Samuel Skliar, who had been active in the Comsomol leadership, in an address he delivered at a party meeting in Dnepro Petrovsk. The “Comsomolskaya Pravda” quotes Skliar as saying: “I am accustomed to persecutions but cannot stand it any longer.”

Skliar said that for two years he and Zizemsky were the only Jewish students at a technical school. They were tortured daily. Zizemsky is now mentally ill, he said.

In giving his reasons for resigning from the party, Skliar said he is convinced a Jew must abstain from all social work. The paper demands an investigation of anti-Semites within the organization.

The “Comsomolskaya Pravda” also reports the anti-Semitic practice of three members of the Rostov Comsomol. Chalin, Krivtzoff and Klotchai, who systematically tortured Mitia lishtein, a member of the Comsomol who lived at a Caucasian resort. They poured water into Ilshtein’s bed and beat him into a state of hysterics. When Selezneff, a Russian member of the Comsomol attempted to defend Ilshtein, they also attacked him. Selezneff is now in the hospital.