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...Benjamin Krieger screamed: "Is your name Meyer...
Dark, stubby Benjamin Krieger is a man who nurses his share of memories. He now lives in a roomy apartment; he has a job in a fish market, just as he had back in Nowogrod, Poland before Hitler's soldiers came, and now he does not have to fear the police. But he has not forgotten the past-the horrors of war and the concentration camp where his wife and four children were killed in a crematorium...
Auschwitz, Dachau . . . One morning last week, Benjamin Krieger saw something which started his heart pounding: a man with a dark, narrow face passing the fish market. He ran out and cried...
...seemed to nod and Benjamin Krieger shrieked: "Then you are the man who killed my brother!" His anguished voice shattered the peaceful pattern of the street. Bearded men turned on the sidewalk and ran back; others rushed out from shops. Benjamin Krieger swung wildly with his fist, and the narrow-faced stranger ran. A yelling crowd of 50 people followed him. The stranger ducked into a religious bookshop and his pursuers began calling, "Lynch him. . . let us have...
...best known and most popular civic figure in Chicago is neither the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, the Democrats' Mayor Martin Kennelly nor the White Sox's aging but indefatigable shortstop, Lucius Benjamin Appling. In 20 years of residence at the Lincoln Park Zoo, Bushman, Chicago's own gorilla, has topped them all, both in favorable publicity and unwavering public regard...