Gershon Broido, a rabbi of Suwalki, dropped dead yesterday during a memorial service being held in the town of Kavarija for a refugee who died in the no-man’s-land area between Nazi Poland and Lithuania. Broido himself had spent eight days in the no-man’s-land.
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