(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Twenty Jewish residents in the town Loschitz, near Ollmetz, Moravia, were seriously injured in a fire which broke out there last night. Sixteen houses were razed, leaving many Jewish families roofless.
An 800 year old wooden synagogue was destroyed in a fire in Olischan, Western Moravia.
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