Mojsze Broderzon

... erhaps the most disturbing fact about the Bialy- stoker Stern is that it deliberately concealed the Nazi inhumanity against the Jews in Poland. Until 1941 the friendship treaty between Germany and_ Russia remained in effect. This meant that the Soviet Union stood silent and even acquiesced in the brutal treatment of the Jews by the Nazis. To be sure, the Bialystoker Jews knew what was going on through the grapevine, every morsel of news disseminated by whisper. But the Jewish newspaper dared not publish anything critical about Germany, much less expose how the Nazi |-זטמז‎ derers beat, tortured, robbed, humiliated and perse- cuted Polish Jewry. The famous Jewish writer, poet and playwright, Mojsze Broderzon of Lodz, who was one of the war refugees in Bialystok at the time, complained bitterly: ““A Jewish newspaper in a Jewish city, several kilometers from the German murder inferno, refuses to devote one line or even one word to the gruesome expe- riences of Jews on the other side of the border, in Poland where Jewish blood is being spilled with abandon.” | ...