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Couldn’t Go to Palestine, Youth Hangs Himself in Poland

January 10, 1937
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A Jewish youth of 22, Simcha Falasnicki, discouraged because he could not obtain a visa to Palestine, committed suicide by hanging today. He had spent a year on a training farm in preparation for life in the Holy Land.

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