Advices from Wilno today denied recurrent reports that Senator Moses Schorr of Poland, Chief Rabbi of Warsaw and principal leader of Polish Jewry, had been executed by the Nazis.
Rabbi Schorr was stated to be under arrest in Soviet-held Lwow, together with Deputy Emil Sommerstein and editor N. Szwalbe of the Polish-language Jewish newspaper Nasz przeglad.
(Conflicting reports concerning the fate of Rabbi Schorr, who is 65, have been circulated since early in October. It was originally reported that he had been executed by the Nazis. Doubt was expressed, however, by relatives in London and Paris and by Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski, who said the Chief Rabbi had left Warsaw before its surrender to the Nazis but had refuse to leave Poland when given an opportunity to accompany Government officials. A Paris dispatch recently quoted an unnamed brother-in-law in Bordeaux, a refugee from Poland, as declaring Rabbi Schorr had been shot without trial by a Nazi firing squad immediately after the occupation of Poland.)
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