The Jewish-founded Wawelberg Technical High School, closed for a fortnight because of anti-Jewish disorders, opened today with the authorities capitulating to demands of anti-Semitic students that Jews be ordered segregated in “ghetto benches” on the left side of classrooms. When Jewish students refused to accept the restriction and remained standing during the classes they were ordered to leave the school.
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