POLISH CHILDREN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1943, Page 4

POLISH CHILDREN

BRUTAL MALTREATMENT BY NAZIS PROTEST MEETING IN LONDON On September 27 a protest meeting against the persecution of Polish children was held in Central Hall, Westminster, London. The leader of the British Labour Party, Mr Arthur Greenwood, presided. The speakers were Captain. Allan, M.P. (Conservative), Mr Graham, M.P. (Conservative), Mr Brown, M.P. (Independent), ‘the Rev Scott and Mr Adam Ciolkosz, leader of the Polish Labour Party. The following protest was unanimously adopted: “We, the undersigned, wish to express our most profound abhorrence of the cruel treatment to which the children of Poland have been subjected. This treatment is part of a German plan to annihilate the Polish nation biologically. Torn from their parents, starved, beaten and in many cases murdered by their torturers, Polish children have to endure sufferings unparalleled in history. They have not only been physically maltreated, but also deprived of home life, education and religion and attempts have actually been made to make them forget they are Poles. We must strongly denounce these outrages and all those who perpetrate them and pledge ourselves to give the victims all assistance in our power and to see that the criminals do not go unpunished.”

The above protest is beifig signed all over Britain by British organisations and institutions.