Two young Jews, Bernard Johannes and Eugen Windish, who were arrested in Cracow in November during the anti-Jewish disturbances, on the charge of smashing windows in the St. Bernard Church while an antisemitic demonstration was in progress near by outside the Cafe Royal, were sentenced today by the Cracow law court to two months’ imprisonment, but the execution of the sentence has been postponed for two years.
Dr. Feldblum, the counsel for the defence, pointed out that both accused had been trained in the scout movement, and brought up in orthodox Jewish homes, where they had learned to respect all religious institutions, so that it was impossible that they should have committed the vandalism of which they were accused. The defence contended that the windows had been smashed by the mob demonstrating outside the Cafe Royal.
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