(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Many important documents of the Petlura pogrom period were collected and systematically arranged by Bernard Lekash, well known French Jewish writer who is touring Russia on behalf of the Paris Schwartzbard Defense Committee.
M. Lekash, who has arrived in Kiev, has had access to the archives of the Jewish relief societies in the Ukraine and has collected many important documents and photographs.
Among the two hundred honorary pallbearers at the funeral on Friday of Borough President of Brooklyn Joseph A. Guider were Julius Miller, President of the Borough of Manhattan, Congressman Emanuel Celler, Edward Lazan sky, Mortimer Weinberg. Ralph Jonas. Harry Rosenson, Samuel Gumpertz, Louis Goldstein, and George Blumberg.
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