Word: poland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading your story on the fate of Poland's remaining Jews [March 14], I thank God for having successfully managed to get my parents and sister out of that country recently...
What is taking place in Poland today is the last tragic chapter in the noble history of Polish Jewry. From early in the 12th century, when German Jews sought new homes there because of persecution by the Crusaders, to the present day,' Jews have contributed much to the economic development and culture of that country. Their only reward has been a life of suffering at the hands of Poland's infamously anti-Semitic population...
...William Mader's emotional conclusions regarding Poland's treatment of Jews demand contradiction. Let us retitle the article "Third Exodus," since the first, as a result of persecution in virtually all European countries (save Spain), was to Polish sanctuary. Beginning with the "Jewish Edict" of 1264 and its nationwide reaffirmation in 1334, the Jews in Poland enjoyed unparalleled freedom, to the extent of effectual self-rule...
...consider the case of Michael Connock. A correspondent specializing in Eastern Europe for London's Financial Times, he met a married Polish woman on a trip in 1966, and on subsequent visits, in his words, "we became very fond of each other." Last month, when Connock returned to Poland, security agents picked him up, told him "you break up families," and warned that he might be permanently expelled from the country. They asked Connock to help identify British agents in Poland; he signed a statement of cooperation, then reported the whole affair to the British government, his wife...
Import Trade. The permissiveness of the law was intended to be its virtue, but it has proved to be a fault. Because the law imposes no residence requirement, the "miscarriage trade" that used to flow from Britain to Poland and Yugoslavia has been reversed. Now wealthy Americans, Canadians and Europeans, as well as women even from countries with such liberal abortion laws as Denmark's, are homing in on London. There, they can get abortions quickly and safely in private hospitals or nursing homes at fees that range from...