Two Jewish memorials here and a Jewish cemetery a nearby town have been desecrated in the past week by anti-Semitic vandals, it was turned today.
Dr. Leopold Nauhaus, president of the Frankfurt Jewish community, in a letter written today to the local police president, Dr. Rudolph Siegert, asked action to present similar occurrences and to apprehend the persons responsible for the vandalism. Siegert immediately offered a reward of 1,000 marks for information leading to the comprehension of the guilty persons.
The objects of the attack were a plaque dedicated to the former Jewish community of Frankfurt and one commemorating the synagogue here which was destroyed in the Nov., 1938 pogroms, and the cemetery in the town of Houssentasm.
Siegert told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he would confer with Dr. Nauhaus on plans for protecting the plaques against further defacement, asserting that it was impossible to keep a constant police guard around them.
When it was pointed out to him that Houssenstasm, which is a very small town, it offered a reward of 3,000 marks for information concerning the vandals, while Frankfurt was only offering 1,000, the police head said that that was a matter for the city council and he could not take any further action.
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