Nine persons convicted last Thursday of participation in the pogrom at Kielce which took the lives of 41 Jews were executed yesterday in the courtyard of the Kielce prison, a government spokesman announced today.
The spokesman, Viktor Grosz, said that the commander and deputy commander of the security police in Kielce would go on trial shortly for their failure to prevent the outbreak.
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