Poland - Orthodox American Jew attacked at cemetery

Asa Yitzhak Beich

An Orthodox American Jew was attacked by a group of teenagers in Warka, a city located 60 km from Warsaw.

The 19-year-old Asa Yitzhak Beich, from Anarbour, near Detroit, US, arrived in Poland two weeks ago and was visiting the “Ohel” or mausoleum commemorating Rabbbi Yitzhak Kalish, a well-known Hassidic rabbi, at the local Jewish cemetery.

Beich told EJP: "I was by myself when I arrived at the cemetery. There, I met a group of twenty teenagers – aged between 11 and 16- to whom I asked the direction of the Ohel. When I arrived at the Ohel, located on the top of a hill, the teenagers started laughing at me, asking me for money and shouting “Jew” in Polish before they punched me in the face."

The young man, who was lightly wounded, managed to escape and was later helped by Polish policemen who tried to identify the teenagers.

Source: www.ejpress.org

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