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Berlin Jews Refused Halls for Overflow Holiday Services

September 27, 1935
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Special overflow services have been arranged in all Berlin synagogues for the High Holidays, which begin with the Jewish New Year services Friday night.

This was made necessary because rental of all municipal auditoriums and private halls used by Jews for overflow services in the past have this year been refused them.

Assurances were given today that measures will be taken by the authorities all over the country to ensure that Jewish Holiday services shall pass undisturbed in Berlin and in the provinces.

Jewish communities throughout the country have also taken precautions to offer no provocation to the anti-Semites. Men and women have been ordered to dress unostentatiously, to refrain from congregating in front of the synagogues and to go directly home after the services. These measures were taken in order to avoid a repetition of the pogrom on Kurfuerstendamm on Rosh Hashonah eve four years ago, led by the present Berlin police chief, Count Wolf von Helldorf.

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