A denial that the Kolhofen Synagogue in Hamburg was confiscated by the Hamburg authorities was issued today by the All-German Jewish Representative Body. The report of the expropriation was carried yesterday in European newspapers.
The statements issued by the Representative Body declared that Hamburg Jews no longer lived in the quarter in which the synagogue was located and the building, long unused, became a fire menace.
The Hamburg Jewish community therefore sold the building to the City of Hamburg, providing that everything connected with synagogue worship remained the property of the Jewish community
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