FW: Jews Poland Ousted In '68 Invited Back (fwd)

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

Just in case none of you guys saw this, I thought I would post it
here.


Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky





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http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/10wars.html
 
           March 10, 1998
 
           Jews Poland Ousted In '68 Invited Back
 
           By REUTERS
 
           [W]ARSAW -- The President's office in Poland said
               Monday that it would take steps to restore
           citizenship to Jews forced to emigrate during an
           anti-Semitic campaign begun in March 1968 by the
           Communist authorities.
 
           "I declare that all those who left Poland due to
           the March events can be assured that, once their
           applications arrive, the President's office will
           take all steps to grant them Polish citizenship,"
           the office director, Danuta Huebner, wrote in a
           statement published in the newspaper
           Rzeczpospolita.
 
           The "anti-Zionist" aspect of a much wider 1968
           Communist assault on dissident intellectuals and
           students drove 12,000 to 20,000 Jews or people of
           Jewish origin to leave the country.
 
           They scattered around the world and only a few
           hundred have since returned.
 
           It is unclear how many may want to apply for
           Polish papers, although presidential aides said
           Monday that more than a dozen applications had
           been received, the P.A.P. news agency said.
 
           Last week President Aleksander Kwasniewski called
           it a shameful page in Polish history.
 
                 Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company
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