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2 Sentenced in Wilno Anti-jewish Rioting

November 15, 1939
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A Polish nationalist has been sentenced to death and another to 15 years’ imprisonment by a court martial for participation in anti-Jewish rioting last week. The first, Boris Filipow, who had been arrested with a blood-stained knife in his possession, was executed yesterday.

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