(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
No Jew took any part in the assassination of Czar Nicholas and his family in Ekaterinburg in 1918, M. Starinkewitsch, a member of the Koltschak Government, declared speaking to the Federation of Russian Advocates in Paris.
M. Starinkewitsch was a member of the commission appointed to inquire into the circumstances of the assassination of the Czar and his family. The commission, he stated, had definitely established that Captain Sergeiev, who was in charge of the execution, was not of Jewish origin, and that none of those present at the execution were Jews, or of Jewish extraction. It was not true, he added that any inscriptions in Yiddish had been found on the walls of the house in which the execution was carried out. All the charges made against Jews in connection with the assassination of the Czar had been proved to be groundless.
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