Two youthful hooligans, both 17, were sentenced to one year in prison for an attack on a Jew in the Polish town of Lignitz, it was reported here today from Warsaw.
During the proceedings, in which both Jews and non-Jews testified, it was brought out that the two youths attacked Moshe Kasatzki in the street without any provocation.
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