Because Alter Figbarz, a Jewish ex-Service man of the Polish Legion declined to adopt the Christian faith, the authorities disposessed the ex-soldier from his plot of ground in Kofa in the district of Nowo-Krolik, which the Government gave him and other soldiers for cultivation.
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