Alexander Gaupt, Nikolai Zlatomerzhev and Ivan Potchupov, three prominent agronomists in the Odessa region, have been sentenced to death for driving Elena Goldman, a young Jewish agronomist, to death by suicide by their persistent anti-Semitic acts. Twenty others involved received lesser sentences. The trial lasted four days.
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