Continued anti-Semitic attacks and arrests of leading Jews in Bohemia-Moravia were reported today from Prague. Czech Fascists supported by Germans demonstrated on the streets of Iglau, beating up Jewish pedestrians and breaking windows of Jewish shops. A number of Fascists were arrested after inadvertently breaking windows of Germans’ shops.
Dr. Leon Selmanowitz, former general secretary of the Jewish Party, was arrested by the Gestapo in Prague shortly after the release from a Gestapo prison of Ernst Frischer, president of the party, who had served a three-and-a-half month term. Among others arrested, it was learned, was Councillor Kaemph, former Higher Court judge, who presided at the treason trial under the former regime of Nazi Professor Partscheider. Kaemph will have to spend two-and-a-half years in prison to match Partscheider’s term despite the fact that the Nazi professor intervened with the Gestapo, declaring that Kaemph had conducted the trial fairly.
Pathetic scenes occurred at the Prague railway station when 260 Jewish children left for England under a stipulation that their parents would not be permitted to visit them until they had become of age. Only one adult was allowed by the Gestapo to accompany the transport to the Netherlands frontier.
In Slovakia, 556 Jewish Lawyers were eliminated in accordance with the decree restricting Jews to 4 per cent in the law profession. Only 24 lawyers were permitted to continue practice, restricted to representing Jewish clients.
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