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Word: calarasi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day a trainload of anti-Semite Rumanian students, en route from Kishinev to Jassy, decided to express their contempt for Jews at Calarasi. When the train drew to a halt they seized the Jewish engineer and bound him to his engine. Dashing through the town, they laid hands on whatever Jews and Jewesses they chanced to meet, dragged these unfortunates to the railway station and flogged them severely. Then, releasing the engineer, they made a final gesture of scorn by climbing back into their train and allowing him to proceed, confident that he would not take revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Protest, Outrage | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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