Anti-semitism Decreasing in Poland, Jewish Emigration Dropping, Head of Polish Ort Says

Anti-Semitism in Poland is on the wane as a result of government pressure against underground fascist gangs and there is no danger of a large-scale pogrom at present, Col. Marian Muszkat, president of the Polish ORT and Poland’s delegate on the U.N. War Crimes Commission, declared today in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He estimated that no more than 30 percent of the Jews still desired to emigrate because of the new situation.

He asserted that one of the greatest factors militating against a resurgence of anti-Semitism was the fact that a great part of the Jewish community was now engaged in various trades rather than in business as they had been before the war. Approximately 1,200 Jews are engaged in textile production and another 1,000 in coal mines in Silesia as well as some 500 working as farmers on the state farm at Szczecin, Col. Muszkat said.

Speaking of the CRT’s activities, he reported that the organization is maintaining 47 schools and training centers with an attendance of about 1,200 men and women. He said that the CRT could provide training for at least twice that number if it had more funds. He disclosed that it was opening a new school in Warsaw for watchmakers, cabinet makers and electrical technicians.