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Frequent Armed Robberies in Roumania: Many Jews Going to Market Towns in Bessarabia and Bukovina Vic

January 6, 1932
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The Jewish population is becoming very uneasy because of the frequent attacks made lately by armed robbers on people in the border districts of the country, especially of the provinces of Bessarabia and Bukovina, many of the victims being Jewish merchants travelling to the market towns.

Some of the robbers are beginning to extend their activities to the big towns, and the latest outrage is reported from Sziget-Marmorosz, the capital of the Marmorosz district, and one of the chief towns in the Province of Transylvania, where masked robbers broke at night into the house of a Jewish family named Kranz. The inmates shouted for help, but before the neighbours arrived the robbers had fled, shooting as they went, and the head of the family, Leopold Kranz, died in the Sziget hospital the following day of his wounds.

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