The statue to the famous Jewish dramatist, Herman Heyermans, which was recently erected in the Vandel Park in Amsterdam, was smeared during the night with red paint. The police have opened an investigation. It is suggested that antisemites are responsible for the outrage, particularly as Heyermans was also an active Socialist, and the Hitlerist movement, which is beginning to invade Holland from Germany is also violently anti-Socialist.
Herman Heyermans, who was famous both as playwright and novelist, was the author of “The Ghetto”, “Sabbath”, “Diamond Town”, and other works dealing largely with the life of the Jews in Holland. He was born in Rotterdam in 1864 and died in Amsterdam in 1924. At the end of September this year, the Amsterdam City Council adopted a resolution to name one of the new streets in Amsterdam the Heyermans Street.
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