Copies of a song about the anti-Semitic excesses in Przytyk last March 10 were confiscated by the authorities today and its rendition prohibited.
The ballad was composed by Moshe Grossfeld, a street singer, to commemorate the riots in which three Jews died and more than a score were seriously wounded.
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