A group of 700 Polish Jews who were arrested ###ing the war and held in various prison, camps in the Soviet Union for several were repatriated to Poland today. They were brought to the Russo-Polish border ##rest-Litovsk, together with 800 non-Jewish Poles, and released by their Russia ###ds. The entire group immediately crossed the frontier into Poland.Freed under the terms of a general amnesty for Polish citizens, the radiates are expected to be the first of a wave of Polish Jews now held in the Soviet ##n for various offenses who will return shortly to Poland. There are no available ?res on the number of Polish Jews imprisoned in Russia at the present time, but his held possible that the future Jewish repatriates will increase considerably the Jewish population of this country.
The condition of the repatriates could not be immediately ascertained, but ##s of their arrival in Poland provoked great interest in the Jewish community here. ##amnesty applies to all Polish citizens not charged with espionage, treason or #ditry.
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