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Seven Anti-semites Sentenced in Rumania for Attacking Jews and Damaging Jews Club

March 26, 1951
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Seven persons convicted by a court in Galatzi, Rumania, of “anti-Semitic attacks” have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 18 months, according to word received here.

The report, said a group of Galatzi townsmen, most of them Jewish workers, were attacked by a band of seven persons on the evening of Doc, 24, 1950. The Jews had just left a Jewish cultural, center where they had participated in a cultural evening. The center, known as the Shalom Aleichem Popular Atheneum, was damaged by the attackers.

An anti-Zionist exhibit has been opened in Timisoara, Rumania. Andrei Adler, a member of the Timiscara branch of the Communist-led “Jewish Democratic Committee, said in opening the exhibition that the “purpose of the exhibit is to string then the work of combating Zionism.” The display features large-size cartoons of what is purportedly the current state of affairs in Israel.

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