Anti-Semitic Lithuanian students of the University of Kaunas today interrupted the inaugural lecture of Doctor M. Guttman, Jewish member of the school’s medical faculty.
A demonstration against Dr. Guttman was carried out by a group of students who yelled, whistled and shouted “beat the Jews.”
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