Forty students and four teachers of Poland’s greatest Jewish religious college, Yeshivat Hahmei Lublin, have escaped to Wilno.
Forty-five students did not succeed in leaving Lublin and were arrested, as well as the head of the school, Rabbi Zvi Frommer, and the chairman of its education board, Joseph Koenigsberg, well known Lublin industrialist and philanthropist. All of those arrested were maltreated, and it was rumored that Rabbi Frommer was tortured to death.
There are altogether 1,700 students of Jewish religious schools in Poland who are now in Wilno, headed by the Gaon Haim Oser Grodzenski.
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