Alfred Apfel, lawyer and former president of the Zionist Federation of Germany, has died suddenly in Marseille at the age of 59, the German emigre newspaper Die Zeitung reports. Apfel was interned in a concentration camp after Hitler’s accession to power for defending prominent Communists in German courts. He later escaped to France and was preparing to emigrate to the United States.
Apfel was born in Dueren, Rhineland. In 1909 he founded the Union of Jewish Youth Organizations of Germany.
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