(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
All Jewish leaders who successively held the office of Minister of Jewish Affairs in the national Ukrainian government during the Petlura regime were urged to appear as witnesses in the trial of Sholom Schwartzbard, slayer of Petlura.
It was learned here that Latzki Bertholdi, who at one time was Minister of Jewish Affairs in the Ukrainian government, was officially asked to appear as a witness in the Paris court.
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