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Article: Letter: Jews in Poland

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April 18, 2000
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Sir: As the spotlight shone for once on the plight of Poles deported to Russia and Polish officers killed in Katyn, H Silver (letter, 10 April) felt compelled to divert the debate to the issue of Polish-Jewish relations.

I can follow in the footsteps of President Lech Walesa at the Knesset in expressing a deeply-felt apology for the persecution suffered by Jews at the hands of certain bigoted and cowardly Poles. There is little to excuse acts such as the pre-Second World War boycotts of Jewish businesses, the wartime anti-Semitic atrocities of Polish nationalists partisans, the murderous post-war pogroms, or the

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