Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News. Near Trondheim, Norway, Vassilij Rambovski, a Russian soldier, who had been holed up since escaping from a Nazi prison in 1944, learned to his delight that the war was over...
Soon after midnight, guards at old Acre Prison, near Haifa, entered his cell and shook Dov Bela Gruner until he woke up. Sleepy-eyed, bewildered, he was taken to a large, dimly lit room. There stood a gallows. There also stood three other men of Palestine's Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist organization. This was their first notice that death had come for them...
...prison official asked the Jewish prisoners if they had any final requests. Yes, they wanted a rabbi to be with them in their last minutes. Said the officer: "You'll have to do without; we can't get one for you." Dov Gruner then asked if he might sing Hatikvah ("The Hope"), the Zionist anthem. The four men's voices rolled the mournful words of Zion...
...Council lost to Norfolk State Prison Colony in a contest held at the prison last Sunday. Speaking for the Crimson were Ellis Kaplan '46, Claude G. Richie, Jr. '49, and Detlev F. Vagts '49. This was the second straight time that the Council has bowed to the State Prison, as a prison team that included a Law School, graduate whipped the debaters last year...
Mother Love. In Cape Town, South Africa, Chatrina Stoffberg hurled her baby at another woman during a heated quarrel, lifted the uninjured infant off the concrete floor, took it to prison with her when she was sentenced to three months hard labor...