Michelis Rolnikas, one of the hostages executed by the Nazis in Paris last Saturday, is revealed as a graduate of Hebrew gymnasia in Lithuania, and a doctor of Laws of the Sorbonne. Rolnikas was well known in student circles in Paris before the war as a brilliant speaker and an active anti-Nazi.
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