Word: henryk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jobs with him, Edward Sienkiewicz thought it a big joke. Yes, it was true: he had told the interpreter that he knew about fishing-fishing was his hobby. But he had also told the interpreter that in his native Poland he was known as the grandnephew of famed Novelist Henryk (Quo Vadis?) Sienkiewicz, as a cello virtuoso and as an occasional conductor of the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra...
...whose name was Henryk Blasczyk, said that he had been held prisoner in the building, that he had seen the bodies of 15 Gentile children killed by the Jews, that he had escaped through a broken window. The myth of ritual murder by Jews is an ancient one in anti-Semitic Poland; last week, as many times before, it turned the Polish crowd into a pack of bloodthirsty maniacs...
Meanwhile, Henryk Blasczyk, the boy who started the pogrom, admitted that his story was a lie. He had stayed for two days in a Kielce house, where Jew-hating agitators had coached him in the old anti-Semitic falsehood...
Saul Lawrence Sherman (Economics), Alfred Freeman Traverse, Jr. (Biology), Stanislaw Henryk Wellisz (Economics...
...Manhattan last week 2,500 trade unionists jammed into Mecca Temple to protest the execution by the Soviet Government of Henryk Ehrlich and Victor Alter, Polish labor leaders. This was the first U.S. gathering on the cause célèbre since Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff had announced that Ehrlich and Alter had been liquidated for subversive activities (TIME, March 15). Cried A.F. of L. President William Green: "Shameless, wanton execution. . . ." New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia called it "Russia's Sacco-Vanzetti case." Many another U.S. labor leader voiced outraged protest...