“no Jews Here” Says Restaurant in Riga

One of the largest restaurants here, the “Esplanade”, has shut its doors to Jews. The restaurant belongs to a German of Nazi sympathies.

The owner of the restaurant had ordered his band to play the official Nazi hymn, the “Horst Wessel Lied.” The Jews thereupon refused to visit the “Esplanade” any more, and the owner, realizing that he had already lost his Jewish customers for good, and that he had no more to lose in this respect, hung a placard on the door, saying “No Jews admitted.” At the same time he put an advertisement in the “Rigasche Rundschau”, the German paper, which appears to have gone over to the Nazis, saying that Jews were requested not to visit his restaurant.