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Economic Conditions in Warsaw Impel Trio of Jews to Kill Selves

December 9, 1929
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The extremely difficult economic conditions that face the Jews here resulted in three fatal suicides today. Salke Benesz, aged 59, an unemployed painter, jumped from the fourth story of his apartment. He is survived by a wife and five children.

Chaim Greenberg 42,a manufacturer of beds, hanged himself in his factory because he faced bankruptcy. Joseph Ritz 35, a paper-box worker, died after a leap from the third story window of his flat from which he had just been ejected.

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