The house of a Jewish grain dealer in Krulewski, near Rembelietz, burned to the ground after it had been set on fire during the course of an anti-Semitic night attack upon the village, it was reported here today.
All the inmates of the house were asleep when the attack occurred. Mendel Birnbaum, the owner of the building, was taken to a neighboring hospital for treatment of burns on his hands and face.
A number of other anti-Jewish outbreaks in villages of the Czestochowa region were also reported here by the Czestochowa kehilla. Windows of Jewish houses in Rembelietz were broken, and other vandalisms perpetrated.
Senator Mendelson has intervened with regard to the anti-Jewish disturbances to the minister of interior, who promised that the guilty would be severely punished.
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