A list of 50 Jewish writers, actors and other personalities executed by the Soviet authorities is published in “Die Folksshtimme,” official organ of the Jewish Communists in Poland, which reached here today from Warsaw. The paper said they were all shot on orders from Stalin. Many of them served in the Red Army during World War II or belonged to the Communist Party, the paper asserted.
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