The women relatives of Jewish political prisoners in the Bialystock prison staged an impromptu demonstration in the large Bialystock synagogue yesterday during the Rosh Hashanah service. Demanding the intervention of the Jewish leader, Rabbi Dr. Rosenmann, the women left the synagogue after they had preventing the blowing of the shofar.
Dr. Rosenmann promised to intervene with the governor on behalf of the 160 Jews among the 400 political prisoners in the Bialystock prison.
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