Under personal supervision and direction of Admiral von Levetzow, the police president a widespread raid was made on the Grenadierstrasse, main artery in the Jewish quarter of the city yesterday afternoon. Many locked houses were broken into, cellars and attics were searched thoroughly and an undetermined quantity of personal possessions and valuables confiscated.
Thirty-four, including nine women, were arrested and turned over to the political police because they had no identification papers at the time they were seized.
The German press, in a detailed description of the raid, states that the police entered one house which was arranged as a private synagogue while the sacramental candles were still burning and a group of worshippers prayed in preparation for the Jewish holiday which began yesterday at sun-down. In the synagogue were also several elderly Jews who had fled to it as a place of refuge in the confusion attendant on the raid.
Two boxes, containing many old silver coins, were broken open by the police. The press, however, did not state that these boxes were for charity collections.
The home of a rabbi living at No. 14, on the Grenadierstrasse, who had been drawing relief from the Jewish community, was searched and revealed, according to the press, a five-dollar bill, eleven marks and a savings account book allegedly showing deposits of 2,500 marks.
From the cellars of private homes along the street, the police dragged out and confiscated cases of clothes and valuables including watches and jewelry.
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