(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Modinski, chief leader in the anti-Jewish pogrom in the Ukrainian town, Heissin, in 1919, was sentenced to death by the Soviet court.
The Heissin pogrom was one of the cruelest anti-Jewish massacres in the Ukraine.
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