Simultaneously with a horrible act of anti-Semitic cruelty on an aged Jewess in Moscow, the Central Committee of the Communist Party, at a special conference to end the repeated anti-Semitic acts in White Russia, has demanded from the Commissariat of Education that special lessons against anti-Semitism be conducted in the schools, that the courts use stricter measures against anti-Semites, and that the Federation of Labor Unions organize, for their members, courses and lectures on the national minority question.
Chana Karlin, a 65-year-old Jewess, is now paralyzed in the Charkov hospital as a result of a heinous attack on her by six anti-Semitic neighbors, who protested against living in the same house with Jews. When Chana’s old husband had left the house, the attackers entered her quarters, tied her hands and feet, stuffed her mouth with rags and put her in a trunk which they locked.
When her husband returned, he found her missing and after a long search, heard weak groans from the trunk. He opened it and found his wife unconscious. Despite immediate medical aid, she has become paralyzed from being thrust, bound, into such tight quarters.
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