Details were received here today of the murder in Wengrow, a town in Nazi-occupied Poland, of Rabbi Mendel Morgensztern, 54 years old. On Yom Kippur (Sept.23). Rabbi Morgensztern was taken out for forced labor and beaten in the street because he did not move quickly enough. The second time he was bayoneted by a soldier because he worked “too lazily.”
His father, Rabbi Isaac Selig Morgensztern of Sokolow, 73 years old, died of a heart attack after receiving news of his son’s death. The Wengrow rabbi is survived by a son, S.D. Morgensztern, who is a rabbi in Glasgow, Scotland.
Meanwhile, information reaching here indicates that Dr. Mayzner, president of the Polish ORT Federation, and Engineer Joseph Jaszunsky, director of the ORT, are safe in Warsaw. The ORT School in Warsaw, Zabia 9, is producing clothing for victims of the siege. The ORT school at Dluga suffered from bombardment.
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