At least five more Jews are “principal defendants” in another mass trial of Soviet citizens charged with “currency speculation,” according to information received here today. Such trials in various sections of the USSR, frequently involving Jews, have always ended in the sentencing of several Jews to death.
The latest mass trial is being held in the Ukraine, according to two Soviet newspapers the Znamnha Kommunisma of Kiev and Rabotchaya Gazetta of Kharkov. The men singled out as “leaders of the ring” and chief defendants were identified, without first names, as Feinberg, Grossman, Sendly, Pecharsky and Pikalny. Seven others on trial with these five were not clearly identified as Jews by their names.
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