POGROM IN POLAND
ANTI-JEAVISH RIOTS
LED BY FASCIST AGITATORS
LONDON, May 25.
The Brest-Litovsk correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" discloses details of a terrible Polish pogrom in Brest-Litovsk, which lasted fifteen hours. During that time the Jewish population of 22,000 was at the mercy of the mob. Whole ; streets of houses and shops were wrecked and looted. Synagogues and schools were demolished. Hundreds of the poorer Jews were ruined.
The rioters, chiefly peasants, were lee", by Fascist Anti-Semite Party agitators. The most sinister feature of. the pogrom was the attitude of the more respectable non-Jews, who often applauded the looters, though others Courageously saved Jewish property from destruction.
The Minister of the Interior has ordered an inquiry. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 9
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117POGROM IN POLAND Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 9
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