(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Joseph Blau, a Jewish student, is among the Roumanian students who were sentenced by court martial to prison terms for participating in the anti-Jewish excesses in Oradeamare.
The Roumanian newspaper, "Dimineatza" discloses today the details of how the Jewish student was involved in the riots which resulted in his sentence to five months imprisonment.
Blau stopped to talk talk on the street in Oradeamare with the Christian student, Gregoriu, with whom he had served in the army and who belongs to the same football team.
While they stood talking a band of students encircled a Jewish passerby near them, attempting to beat him. Both Blau and Gregoriu intervened, saving the Jewish passerby from the maltreatment of the students. In the meantime a prefect had arrived and demanded to see Blau’s papers. Blau was arrested and prosecuted on the charge of participation in the riots.
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