WORLD : U.S. Jews Assaulted at Auschwitz
Polish workers beat up and dragged away seven American Jews today as they protested the presence of a Roman Catholic convent at the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, witnesses said.
The Jews, led by Rabbi Avraham Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, N.Y., shouted “Nazi Poles, anti-Semites” as six brawny workers dragged them outside the convent grounds and dumped them in the road.
A Polish Catholic priest, about 20 residents of Oswiecim--the Polish name for Auschwitz--and five policemen watched without intervening as the Poles fought the Jews for 20 minutes, shouting obscenities as they punched and kicked them.
A young Polish student priest watching the fight encouraged the workers, shouting: “Rip off their skullcaps. Drag them out.”
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