The Gestapo, secret State police, today arrested two more Zionist leaders, Franz Meyer and Benno Cohen, members of the German Zionist Federation’s council.
As in the case of Rabbi Emil Bernhard Cohn, 55-year-old Zionist scholar and writer who was seized Sunday, no reasons were given for the detentions.
The arrests have had no visible effect on the offices of the Federation, which are working normally. Rabbi Cohn’s arrest is the second in the space of a year. He was seized on Dec. 20, 1935 and held for eighteen days on a charge of criticizing the Nuremberg “ghetto” laws in an address at Kopenick.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
