Three more Jews have been executed for “economic offenses,” by Soviet firing squads, according to reports in a Soviet newspaper received here today.
The executions of Fedor Kaminer, Mikhail Rabinovich and Aaron Reznitski were reported by Sovietskaya Litva, a provincial newspaper published in Vilna, the capital of Soviet Lithuania. The three Jews had been charged with “currency speculation” at a trial last winter and convicted.
Basya Resnitski, wife of Aaron, also was convicted but her fate was not indicated in the Vilna news report. It was believed that she and others among 20 Soviet citizens sentenced to death on the same general charges probably have already been executed.
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