It was in Lyck that the first-ever weekly newspaper in the Hebrew language , Ha-Magid ( " the preacher " ) was founded in 1856 by Eliezer Lipmann Silbermann , a local rabbi . The paper was eventually moved to Berlin . In Weimar Germany anti-Semitism became prevalent , which led to persecution of the local Jewish population even before the Nazis took power . An anti-Semitic publication , '' Die jüdische Überlegenheit '' ( '' The Jewish Supremacy '' ) attacking the Jews circulated in 1927 at a local gathering of fascist sympathizers In 1932 , the local pharmacist Leo Frankenstein was attacked ; a hand grenade was thrown into his home . The wave of anti-Semitic repressions intensified after Nazis gained power in Germany in 1933 and many local merchants and intellectuals of Jewish descent were arrested . During Kristallnacht , Jewish shops and synagogue were plundered and devastated in the town . Facing these events , several Jews of Lyck decided to escape , some abroad , some to Berlin , others as far as Shanghai Of those Jews who remained , 80 were murdered in various Nazi concentration and death camps
Kristallnacht
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