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The Nazis’ increasing persecution of Jews ended Vera’s education, and in 1938 her father’s business in Danzig was seized and he fled to Gdynia, Poland.

After Kristallnacht, the Nazis’ night of violent antisemitic pogroms in November 1938, the Schapiros received exit visas; after learning that Gestapo officers were waiting for them at the cousins’ home, they took the train to Gdynia, where they reunited with Mr. Schapiro.

Gdansk is a neighboring city to Gdynia on the Baltic coast.

The attack happened after a EuroCup women’s match where the Gdynia team defeated rivals from Switzerland, BCF Elfic Fribourg, 77-47.

The president of the Gdynia club, Boguslaw Witkowski, said in an interview with the Polish state news agency PAP that the player was attacked near the women’s restroom by a security guard.