Serious acts of anti-Semitic terror are reported from the Polish province of Galicia, inhabited mainly by Ukrainians.
In the East Galician village of Potaczysko, the Jewish shochet Salman Feingold and his wife Malka were murdered. Nothing was removed from the house. In the village of Czypowitze, Lipa Sternberg found at his door a letter in Ukrainian warning him to leave the village immediately or he would be killed.
In many other villages, according to the Lemberg Jewish paper, Neyer Morgen, Jews are afraid of being killed during the nights. The paper emphasized the alarming increase in terroristic acts against Jews and declares that anti-Jewish acts are developing in Galician villages with an unheard of rapidity.
The Ukrainians, who are opposed to their Polish rulers and desire independence, have made Jews their scapegoat for their failure to achieve freedom.
In January the London Jewish Chronicle reported that a state of terror existed in Galicia, reminiscent of the pogrom period of Bogdan Chamelnitzki. The Chronicle reported that Jewish houses were often set on fire by Ukrainian terrorists, who locked the doors of the hoses and burned alive the Jewish residents.
The Chronicle correspondent also reported that in many Galician districts not a single Jewish house was left standing where the windows were not broken by bands of hooligans. The breaking of windows constitutes a first warning for Jews to leave the village.
Last October a similar wave of terror was reported from Galicia. Jewish farmhouses were burned, crops destroyed and trees uprooted. Many Jewish farmers shot without the slightest warning as they worked in the fields. The Ukrainians hope to force Jews to leave their farms. Ukrainian terrorists declare that Jews have no right to be farmers and should confine themselves to trade.
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