A double tragedy, which aroused great sympathy among the inhabitants here occurred on Yom Kippur in the home of Nikolaus Rona, Chief Inspector of the Roumanian State trains.
Mitzi Rona, the 18 year old daughter of the Jewish overseer, committed suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of their apartment because her father would not allow her to take here examinations in the medical college of the University of Clausenberg, which were shceduled for Oct. 14th, the Day of Atonement.
Upon seeing his daughter’s body, the father went insane and had to be removed to a sanitarium.
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