![]() ![]() This was a age-old scheme used by anti-Semites to extort money from the Jewish community. ![]() It was irrelevant to the persecutors and prosecutor that the accused Jews were never even involved in politics. These Jews were falsely charged with treason for their alleged collaboration with the Russians during the war. Motivated by greed, and under the guise of patriotism, city officials of Radziejow arrested several prominent Jews. These anti-Semites pointed out that in recent local history, the Jews had petitioned a foreign government, Germany, for their own benefit. Such sentiments reached Radziejow, where locals branded the Jews as traitors. They made the audacious accusation that the Jews had collaborated with Russia to help in its fight against Poland. ![]() A group of rabble-rousing nationalists claimed that the Jews had never fully assimilated into mainstream Polish society and therefore constituted a fifth column. “During the war with Russia, the Jewish community of Poland was threatened with a particularly virulent strain of Polish anti-Semitism. ![]()
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