CHILDREN OF POLAND
Sir,-I wish to draw your attention to an inaccuracy in ‘the article "Children of Poland" in your issue of September 8. Part of this article reads as follows: "There was no discrimination
in the education available, the way to knowledge was open to all, and efforts were made to facilitate the acquisition of it.’ As far as I know there was a Strict mumerus clausus towards Jewish students at the universities in Poland, so that thousands of students had to
study at foreign universities.-
TRUTH
PREVAILS
(Wellington)_
[When the above letter was referred to the Consul-General of Poland, he stated: ‘With regard to the statement of ‘Truth Prevails’ that there was ‘a strict numerus clausus towards Jewish students at the universities in Poland,’ the only one which existed and which affected all, itrespective of creed, related to the places available at each of the five medical schools in the universities of Poland. As in New Zealand and in nearly every country in the world, the number of candidates flocking to medical training far surpassed the number of available vacancies, A special examination for admission was held each year to select from several hundred candidates the one hundred or so who could be accommodated, To my knowledge, as former student, lecturer and professor at two Polish universities, never was a discrimination made by the examining body on the ground of religion or nationality. Jewish students were represented in larger numbers than their ratio in the population.’ ]
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 277, 13 October 1944, Page 7
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248CHILDREN OF POLAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 277, 13 October 1944, Page 7
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