A detachment of 500 Polish scouts, working for two months under orders from Col. S. Vishlitz, governor of the province of Kielce, has completed the erection of a brick wall around the Jewish cemetery in the town of Kielce, it was reported here today.
The cemetery was used by the Germens during the war as an execution court and in 1916 a mob of Polish pogromists murdered 42 Kielce Jews. Many tombstones from the cemetery had been scattered by vandals through the streets of Kielce and the Polish scouts supervised the return of these monuments to their proper places in the burial grounds. They also exhumed the bodies of 1,000 non-Jewish Poles who had been killed by the Germans and burial in the Jewish cemetery.
A message of thanks to Col. Vishlitz for his role in restoring the cemetery was forwarded to him by the Congregation of Jewish Communities in Poland. Col. Vishitz undertook the two-month task following a request made by Pinchas Aysenberg, chairman of the Kielce Jewish community.
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