A large swastika was painted in bright red on the Ahavas Achim synagogue building here at its entrance. Under it, in large capital letters and also in bright red, was the word “butchers,” obviously referring to the hanging of Nazi Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who was executed in Israel last week after he was found guilty of directing the annihilation of 6,000,000 Jews in Europe.
Anti-Israel and anti-Jewish circulars threatening Jews with gas chambers were thrown into the Jewish Music Center of the Detroit Jewish Folk Chorus last Saturday. The circulars, mimeographed in illiterate English, warned that “the ruthless murder of Adolf Eichmann will be avenged” and that “Jews guilty of buying Israel bonds will be gassed.”
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