Three hundred churches and 62 synagogues have been closed in the Polish districts occupied by Soviet Russia, according to the Communist organ, Lwow Prawda. They are now being used as clubs, dance halls, cinemas and anti-religious museums.
According to other reports, the former president of the Cracow Kehilla, Dr. Rafael Landau, who fled from Lwow at the outbreak of war, has been deported by the Soviet Government to a distant part of Russia. Dr. Jacob Schechter, president of the Revisionist Zionists of Eastern Galicia, is also said to have been deported.
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