A Nationalist, Jan Antezak, was sentenced by the District Court today to twelve years’ imprisonment for the murder last month of two Jews, Yankov Blitzenstein and Simon Chelmner, son of the local president of the Agudath Israel.
Antczak, during the trial, boasted of the murders and declared: “It is not enough to suppress the Jew economically. They must also be killed.” Nationalist attorneys justified the slayings as “a positive Nationalist deed.”
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