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Declare Jewish Leaders Hostages for Violation of Anti-jewish Laws

September 10, 1942
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Pressed by the Gestapo, the Jewish Council in Amsterdam has issued a Rosh Hashanah appeal to the Jews of Holland to obey the Nazi anti-Jewish regulations emphasizing that “violation of these regulations, even when due only to carelessness or ignorance, will result in punishment of members of the Jewish Council.”

The persistence which Dutch Christians display in various activities designed to circumvent the effect of the anti-Semitic regulations upon their Jewish neighbors has provoked another irate article in the storm-troop newspaper, De Storm, the current issue of which arrived here today from Amsterdam.

The pro-Nazi publication charges that despite the ban on Jews frequenting hotels and pensions at the seashore many of them managed to enjoy a brief holiday at seaside resorts through the kindness of Christian residents of these towns who allowed the Jews to use their homes, while they moved into hotels temporarily. De Storm also asserts that non-Jews shop for Jews during hours when the latter are forbidden to enter any stores, thus ensuring that the Jews secure food, the supplies of which are usually greatly depleted by the evening hours when they are allowed to shop.

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