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Sejm Group Rejects Plan to Overcome Difficulties of Jewish Medical Students

March 17, 1929
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An attempt to solve the difficulty which continually confronts Jewish medical students in the Polish universities was blocked by a vote in the Sejm Education Committee.

The Education Committee rejected by a majority vote a proposal of Deputy Wygodsky which would provide corpses for the anatomical laboratories of the universities. Recurrent incidents, especially in the universities of Vilna and Lemberg, when Polish students refused to permit Jewish students to enter the laboratories unless they provided corpses for their own experiments, was the obstacle the Deputy sought to over come.

The proposal recommended that the government introduce a law allowing the organization of an office in Warsaw for the purchase of corpses for medical purposes.

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