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Stateless Jews and Refugees in Tangier Ordered to Register with Spanish Police

April 11, 1943
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Spanish authorities in Tangier, Morocco, have issued an order instructing all stateless Jews in the city, as well as all those who arrived in Tangier during the last five years, to register with the local police.

The order, it was reported here today, created panic among the Jewish refugees, who fear that the registration is a prelude to the internment of all those who fled to Tangier from Nazi-held and Nazi-dominated countries.

The Spanish newspaper Falanga, reaching here from Madrid, carries a denial of a Nazi report that Spanish police have discovered a “Bolshevik plot” in a synagogue in Seville and have arrested the rabbi there. The Spanish paper says that the synagogue in Seville has been closed for centuries and adds that there is no Jewish community and no rabbi in that city.

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