The first list of 12 of the Jewish leaders killed during the pogrom in Bucharest last week was obtained here today. An official list has not yet been issued in the Rumanian capital and death notices in newspapers are limited to 30 daily.
The fatalities include Moise Orechowsky, director of the Palestine Office; Leon Plimes, of the Palestine Office; Joseph Weissman, a leading industrialist; Miso Goldschleger-Costin, brother of the Zionist-Revisionist leader, Jean, who is now in Palestine; Jean Jacques Adlersberg, engineer; Baruch Kauffman, textile manufacturer, and his son Jacques; Sigmund Collin, treasurer of the Jewish Community; Isidore Goldstein, a director of the community; Oscar Andrei, director of the Buhusi textile works; Milo Beiller, prominent lawyer, and Mariasis Marin, law professor.
Meanwhile, it was learned today that 87-year-old Mibaitza Marin and his wife, were accused of having killed, during Marin’s term as Iron Guardist “mayor” of the Bucharest suburb of Sherb an Voda, Jewish shopkeepers and businessmen who refused to surrender their property to the Guardist political boss.
The Rumanian Government announced that Marin, his wife and four henchmen would be tried not only for murder, but for forcing three Jewish firms to sign over their property to the Guardist for “ridiculously low” sums. The only Bucharest paper not condemning Marin is the Italophile Curentul, which excuses the murders on the ground that the victims were “persons who proved undesirable”–Jews.
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