A horrible case of anti-Semitic persecutions is reported in the Soviet brick factory at Bobruisk, the town where the Barshay affair occurred. The two brick workers, Zivilko and Petrovitch, in their persecutions of the Jewish worker, Hersh Neiman, threw hot metal in his face on purpose. Neiman immediately became blind.
Both the perpetrators were excluded from the factory. However, the local Communist party collective tried to avert an anti-Semitic issue in this case, saying that the affliction caused the Jewish worker was a mere accident.
After a special investigation the District Communist Party ordered the dissolution of the factory collective. Zivilko and Petrovitch were arrested. Norman is in the hospital seriously ill.
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