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bet hamidrash

Building wall against which one hundred people were shot.

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... Commandant Friedl, after learning what had hap- pened, ordered that one hundred men, women and children living in the area where the incident occurred be rounded up and force-marched to a nearby garden, where they were lined up against the wall of an adjacent bet hamidrash and shot with machine guns. ...

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... The Torah ignoramus received no respect what- soever. Only a laborer who also knew how to study the Torah was honored. Simple Jewish toilers learned Ein Yaakov, listened to a magid or recited the Psalms. Also for them the bet hamidrash served as the community ...

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