Three well-known Transylvania Jews were revealed today to have been among the ten persons reported killed in last Sunday’s bombing of a Jewish theatre in the city of Temesvar. The victims were Berthold Eckstein, president of the Palestine Foundation Fund of Transylvania, Simon Hirsch, general secretary, and his wife, Helen Horowitz. An unexploded bomb was discovered yesterday on the premises of the Jewish Students’ Club at Club.
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