One Jew was murdered and fifty were seriously injured during a Nazi-organized pogrom in the Polish city of Zolkiew this week, it was learned here today by Polish-Jewish circles.
The pogrom was staged during market day in the town, when Nazis circulated among the German settlers there spreading false reports that Jews were buying up all the produce. When the Germans had been sufficiently aroused the local Nazis precipitated the attack by breaking into the Jewish school house and severely beating both the teacher and his pupils, twelve of whom are in a critical condition. A number of Jewish houses were almost completely demolished in the course of the pogrom.
The Polish peasants from the surrounding countryside, who were in the city to sell goods, refused to join in the attacks on the Jews, although urged to do so, the report states. As a result of the outbreak several Jews were arrested but none of the attackers were molested by the authorities.
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