Prison sentences and fines were imposed on a number of Jews in the town Piatraceamtze who were tried for offering resistance to a hand of anti-Semitic students who attacked the synagogue on the Day of Atonement.
Two of the accused Jews, Schuller and Wolff, were sentenced to six months imprisonment; Schor, Schiloch, Polak and Moise were sentenced to one-year imprisonment; the Leibovici brothers, the Daniel brothers, Jacobi, Haimovici, Katz and Siegler, the Leibovitsch brothers and Schaeffer were sentenced to two years imprisonment. Some of the accused were also compelled to pay a fine of two million lei. Schuller and Hergheleigiu, Beregescu and Huditsch were fined one million lei.
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