(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The trial of fifty Jewish pupils of a Czernowitz high school for participating in a street demonstration in 1926 in protest against the discriminatory practices of the school authorities will begin here on Thursday, April 26.
David Falik, the Jewish student who was murdered in court by Nicolai Totu on Nov. 11, 1926, was a member of the group. The trial of the high school pupils was postponed several times. The occurrence was made the subject of a wide agitation by the anti-Semitic elements, leading to a long series of anti-Jewish excesses at the end of 1926.
Falik was murdered at the first trial. The efforts of the Jewish deputies in the Roumanian parliament to postpone the trial indefinitely met with the opposition of the Minister of Justice.
As the date of the trial approaches, the accused as well as the Jewish witnesses have declared that they will not come to court unless sufficient guarantees are given by the authorities that their personal safety will be protected from anti-Semitic attacks.
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