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Schwartzbard Escapes to Rumania, Family Killed in Flight

October 2, 1939
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Deputy Ignacy Schwarzbard, president of the Zionist Organization of East Galicia, revealed upon his arrival here that during his flight into Rumania from Poland his automobile met with an accident, resulting in the death of his wife and daughter, he himself being miraculously spared.

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