The perfidious charge of the Roumanian Minister of Education, Pretrovici, that not the Roumanian students but the Jews were responsible for the anti-Jewish excesses, was answered in a memorandum submitted to Prime Minister Averescu by the Jewish community of Kalarash, one of the communities which suffered during the excesses.
In its memorandum, the Jewish community of Kalarash points to the fact that no Jew was present at the railway station when the train bringing the participants of the anti-Semitic students congress at Jassy arrived in the town. The students, having alighted from the train, destroyed a part of the town, while the soldiers looked on and did not interfere. It is untrue that the lives of the students were in danger, because none of the attacked Jews offered resistance, as is proven by the fact that not a single student was wounded, while four Jews were injured.
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