A Ghetto for Jewish merchants was announced today by the municipality of Fuestenwald-am-Spree in connection with the annual fair there which opens August 23. Jews will be allowed to trade only in a specially reserved spot remote from the rest of the fair, and will be completely isolated from the rest of the bazaar.
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