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Jewish Peasants Kill Jewish Soviet Official

December 27, 1929
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Sh. Rosin, Jewish secretary of the Soviet in the village of Borovoje, in the Koidanov region, was shot to death yesterday when a number of Jewish peasants opposing collectivization fired several shots at him in the dark. Sh. Besman, Jewish chairman of the Soviet in the same village, narrowly escaped a similar fate when shots were fired at him, too. A number of the peasants have been arrested.

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