Tag #146739 - Interview #83417 (Genrikh Len )

After obtaining legal education, Khenik served as a people’s judge between 1935 and 1937. He frequently acted as a judge in court cases of Poles and Jews, thanks to his good command of both Polish and Yiddish. At the end of 1937 he was subjected to repressions [9], announced an ‘enemy of the people’ [10] and put in jail for ten years. His wife, having learned about it, hanged herself.