Samuel Aron Ehrenreich, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, was under arrest here tonight for his single-handed protest against persecution of the Jews in Germany.
Ehrenreich was arrested after he had hurled a bottle through a window of the German Embassy. The bottle contained a letter of protest against the suffering forced on the Jewish people by the Hitler regime.
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