A crowd identified as members of the National Christian Party today raided and completely demolished the home of the only Jewish inhabitant of the village of Drugenini in Bessarabia.
Led by a teacher, who shouted, “Even one Jew is too much” they forced the Jew, Joseph Swardszebar, to flee from the village with his family. All his possessions were destroyed.
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