Five Ukrainian peasants, Lopatko, Nazarenko, Fil, Gus and Krikun, were sentenced to death by the Soviet court of Charkoff for perpetrating a pogrom in the Jewish colony No. 77 in the district of Pokrovsk, region of Zaporozhje, Ukraine.
The colony is one of the settlements sponsored by the Icor. The court established that the attack on the colony was of the character of a pogrom, during which several of the Jewish settlers died of fear and the rest left their houses, remaining away for a full week, fearing to return.
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