Nazi newspapers reaching here today from Amsterdam report the execution of four Jews by order of a German military tribunal for alleged underground anti-Nazi activities. Those executed were the brothers Hermann and Peter Meyer, Levy Degroot and a Jewish baker of Utrecht named I. Roodenburg.
The same newspapers report the execution of three Utrecht Dutchmen “for organizing sabotage and for helping Jews.”
Private reports reaching here today from Amsterdam state that streets bearing the names of Spinoza, Joseph Israels, Uriel Acosta and other world-famed Jewish philosophers and painters who lived in Holland have been renamed under a decree dated August 18, issued by the mayor of Amsterdam as a result of pressure by the German occupational authorities.
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