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...Grotkowski had not had too much vodka Saturday night before last he would still be alive, 300 citizens would be uninjured; the Gmilus Chassodim Synagogue would not have been bombed; and members of the Polish Tank Corps might have had their usual furlough last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Vodka Pogrom | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...Grotkowski with a party of friends celebrated the end of a week's work at the University of Lwow (pronounced Lvoof) by getting a skinful of vodka at a local Café. Into the same Café came four self-assured young Jews: M. Katz, S. Keller, N. Schmer, and Isaac Tune, accompanied by a complaisant young lady of the town. The sight offended Student Grotkowski. Loudly and insolently he insulted them. Some member of the Katz, Keller, Schmer & Tune party stabbed him in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Vodka Pogrom | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...does not take much to set anti-Semitism raging in Poland. Two days later 60,000 Gentiles of Lwow (scarcely any of whom had ever heard of Jan Grotkowski before) marched in his funeral procession. As the crowd poured out of the cemetery somebody started shooting from the windows of a nearby building. Another student, one Zamorski, dropped wounded, crying "I'm shot! I'm shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Vodka Pogrom | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

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