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Fire Destroys Religious Library in Wilno

January 28, 1937
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Fire lasting several hours destroyed today a large religious library housed in a synagogue here. Ten scrolls were among the valuable objects lost in the blaze. Rabbi Joseph Shapiro, trying to save the scrolls, sustained serious burns.

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