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I remember there was a point when we were thrown out of the Polytechnic. Mlodziez Wszechpolska – Pan-Polish Youth [13]. We were pushed out: both Jews and so-called communists – Poles who defended those Jews – pushed out of the gate of the Polytechnic. As the police didn’t intervene, because the police had no right of entry on the polytechnic campus, it all went off without interference, and the rector was around, and calmed things down, but didn’t intervene. He was called Warchalowski.
Then there were incidents like this in Warsaw: students from student fraternities [14] had sticks, in these sticks they would set razor blades, and they would hit people on the back of the head. I remember a friend of mine, Czerskier, came to me from the Polytechnic. We dressed his wound. He had this terribly thick mop of hair and a cut in the back of his head made with a razor blade.
As for instances of drastic anti-Semitism, I didn’t have immediate contact with any. I don’t know where I can have remembered these two names from: Jegier and Owsiany? I overheard something somewhere [as a child], and it stuck in my mind, but it might not be true. Anyway, it sticks in my mind that these two Jews were killed in the pogrom in Kielce in 1918 [15]. But I’m not certain of that information.
Then there were incidents like this in Warsaw: students from student fraternities [14] had sticks, in these sticks they would set razor blades, and they would hit people on the back of the head. I remember a friend of mine, Czerskier, came to me from the Polytechnic. We dressed his wound. He had this terribly thick mop of hair and a cut in the back of his head made with a razor blade.
As for instances of drastic anti-Semitism, I didn’t have immediate contact with any. I don’t know where I can have remembered these two names from: Jegier and Owsiany? I overheard something somewhere [as a child], and it stuck in my mind, but it might not be true. Anyway, it sticks in my mind that these two Jews were killed in the pogrom in Kielce in 1918 [15]. But I’m not certain of that information.
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Julian Gringras
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