Shloime Lewkowitsch, an aged Jew, of Wieruschow, was brutally beaten at the railway station of Luceliniez, the assailants capping the torture of the old man by plucking his beard and throwing him to the ground. Station police witnessed the scene and encouraged the hooligans, says the report.
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