The Zoppot Jewish Community was prevented today from selling the ground occupied by a synagogue destroyed in the recent anti-Jewish excesses when the Nazi authorities presented a last-minute demand for payment of 120,000 gulden, representing alleged land tax arrears which the synagogue, in its 40 years’ existence, had never been required to pay. The action was believed to have the twofold aim of preventing the Jewish Community of the resort city from realizing on its assets and to prevent erection of a Catholic church, since the prospective purchaser was a Polish organization seeking a church site.
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