Eighteen Jewish students were recovering today from injuries suffered when 2,000 nationalist students of Pilsudski University stormed the university law building and, in the presence of the professors, maltreated and ejected twenty-three Jewish students, eleven of whom were women.
The rioting marked the anniversary Saturday of the death of two Christian students, Waclawski of Lwow and Grotkowski of Wilno, several years ago. After a memorial service in the St. Anna’s Church, the 2,000 students, led by adherents of the anti-Semitic Endek Party, tore down the gates of the university and entered the auditorium of the law building.
Police arrived after the students had demolished the furniture and injured the Jewish students, one of whom, Arthur Horowitz, 18, was taken to a hospital, suffering from head injuries.
Simultaneously, students led by members of the anti-Semitic National Radical Party demonstrated against Jewish students at the Polytechnicum High School of Agriculture, shouting party slogans.
In the neighborhood of the school, windows were smashed in three Jewish-owned shops.
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