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6 Wounded in New Polish Excesses

June 2, 1937
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Serious anti-Jewish excesses were reported today from two Polish towns.

Six Jews were seriously wounded in by attacks at Gura-Kalwarja, town in which the famous Chassidic spiritual leader known as the Gerer Rebbe makes his home. A number of Jewish shops were completely destroyed. Police restored order.

Hundreds of Naras, members of the outlawed National Radical party, participated in anti-Jewish attacks in the town of Bryansk, in the Bialystok district. Jewish merchants were beaten after they had been compelled to close their stores. Many market stalls were wrecked and windows of homes and two synagogues smashed.

The authorities yesterday prohibited a mass meeting called by the Bund, Jewish labor party, to protest the Brzesc pogrom of May 13.

After lingering in a Warsaw hospital for a year, Chaim Yehuda Szimanowski, 30-year-old Jewish shoemaker, has died of injuries received in anti-Semitic riots in Minsk-Mazowiec.

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