John Walter, his nephew and the family historian, explained, "He had a lot of Jewish tenants and it wasn't a good thing to be German in those days."

He had Jewish tenants in the house.

One of Ibrahim's former Jewish tenants still lived on the second floor.

The caretaker, usually a state corporation, can then turn the property over to Jewish tenants on long-term leases.

"The price they would have to pay if caught was to be shot together with their Jewish tenants," Mr. Nowacki said.

Today, many of the remaining Jewish tenants are either elderly or single women on welfare.

As early as 1956, Wolters feared the effect that disclosure of the GBI's eviction of Jewish tenants might have on Speer.

How can African-American or Jewish tenants be secure in the face of racist or anti-Semitic violence?

Until now, the protesters had portrayed the dispute as solely a racial issue, pitting a white Jewish tenant against a black subtenant.

The landlord added that "no similar rules prevent the eviction of Muslim tenants during the month of Ramadan, or the eviction of Jewish tenants during Passover."