[Cz-L] Communists - "mild cases" - convicted in 1932!

Czernowitzers...

As previously reported, Czernowitz police and secret service authorities imprisoned by the end of the year 1932 many students - most of them Jews - charging them for communist activities and propaganda. Two major trials were held, one of them, that one for the "mild cases", ended seventy-eight years ago today with the following verdicts:

- Nathan Melzer: 6 months prison, 3000 Lei fine and loss of civil rights for 3 years
- Walter Roll: 6 months prison, 1000 Lei fine and loss of civil rights for 3 years
- Adrian Sirota: 5 months prison, 500 Lei fine and loss of civil rights for 3 years
- Nathan Engel: 4 months prison, 500 Lei fine and loss of civil rights for 3 years
- Demosthenes Freud: 10 days arrest, transformed to a 500 Lei fine
- Isak Kurzberg: 10 days arrest, transformed to a 500 Lei fine
- Malvine Hoch: 10 days arrest, transformed to a 500 Lei fine
- Mordechai Krasnopolski: 10 days arrest, transformed to a 500 Lei fine
- Gisela Linker: 10 days arrest, transformed to a 500 Lei fine
- Nessia Glußman: 10 days severe arrest
- Abraham Weißmann (not guilty, but for 3 months in investigative custody): not guilty
- Dagobert Hertzig: not guilty
- Alexander Gellmann: not guilty
- Isiu Salamander: not guilty
- Iakob Teller: not guilty
- Mordche Weißberg: not guilty
- Herbert Gabe: not guilty
- Iankel Favinski: not guilty
- Erich Klein: not guilty
- Hedwiga Kupermann: not guilty
- Ernestine Blickstein: not guilty
- Litman Färber: proceeding stopped, as already convicted for 10 months prison

The other trial, that one for the "dangerous criminals" will continue in a few days, accompanied by violence, police brutality and pogrom atmosphere.

Remark: We learn, that some of the above convicted students lost their civil rights for 3 years. Keeping in mind the "ordinary" discrimination of Jews in Interwar Romania, this penalization didn't change substantially their status quo ante.

We learn about this trials from Czernowitz newspaper "Der Tag - The Day" (http://czernowitzdaily.blogspot.com/); to be continued.

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

http://hauster.blogspot.com/

                                               
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