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http://archive.jta.org/article/1940/09/09/2852037/ten-prominent-jews-denationalized-by-vichy-government/
September 9, 1940
Ten Prominent Jews Denationalized by Vichy Government
VICHY, France, Sep. 8 (JTA) –
Ten prominent members of the French Jewish community, including five members of the famous Rothschild banking family, are among 15 persons deprived of their French citizenship by the Vichy Government for having left France between June 10 and 25. Their belongings will be confiscated.
The decree issued by the government struck at the following Jews: Barons Edouard, Robert, Henri, Philippe and Maurise de Rothschild; David Weill, philanthropist and art patron; Edouard Jonas, art dealer and antiquarian; Maurice and Leon Stern, bankers. Elie J. Bois, former editorial writer of the newspaper Le Petit Parisien.
(The United Press reported from Vichy that France expects to add 825,000,000 franch approximately $19,640,000--to its refugee relief fund from the sale of property confiscated from these persons.)
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"Ten Prominent Jews Denationalized by Vichy Government." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 9 Sep 1940.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
THE JEWISH WORKER AND CRAFTMAN
http://archive.jta.org/article/1934/01/22/2812388/the-truth-about-hilters-war-on-the-jews
January 22, 1934
The Truth About Hilter’s War on the Jews
IV. THE JEWISH WORKER AND CRAFTMAN
403,969 Jews among 38,120,173 German!
HOW DO THEY FARE
Fifty thousand Jewish laborers and artisans - not including clerks and other white collar employees - are to be found in Prussia today. How are they faring under the new regime?
To begin with, under the present regime, Jewish workers are not allowed to belong to unions. They have also been kept out of the so-called Labor Front, created by the Hitler government to replace the tradeunions.
Not alone the workers, but the employers as well, are members of the Labor Front. In this, the German government has followed along the lines of Fascist Italy, on the premise that there is no class distinction between employers and employees.
This union of Capital and Labour in one organization from which Jews are expressly in a particularly sad plight. He is still employed, but his interests are no longer protected by any one. Should he lose his job, he will have to apply for work to a Jewish concern, because no organization affiliated with the Labor Front will give him employment.
JEWISH WORKER ISOLATED
The Labor Front has thus isolated the Jewish worker in a ghetto. It has done the same thing with the Jewish employer. The difference between the two elements, however, is this - while the Jewish employer, is compelled by the authorities to employ non-Jewish labor, there is nolaw forcing the non-Jewish employer to give jobs to Jewish workers who are members of the Labor Front, from which Jews are automatically excluded.
This is the reason why a jewish laborer in Germany, once he loses his job, has a very small chance of reemployment. No matter how badly he may be needed, he will not be hired. Not being a member of the Labor Front, he cannont obtain a job in a factory or plant owned by "Aryans," and his only resort is a firmwhich is still under Jewish control.
And how many such enterprises are still controlled by Jews in the Gemany of today? It is therefore quite obvious that no better common laborer in Germany. He may still be employed in his old job, but he rises every morning with the dreadful thought that this may be his last day there, that an "Aryan" may replace him, that he may be thrown out of the factory and that there will be nobody to protect his interests.
Finding himself in such a nervous state, it is easy to imagine what the Jewish common laborer in Germany, in constant fear of losing his job, has to undergo. His non-Jewish fellow workers are organized, and only he alone is left outside the pale, isolated and not belonging to an organization. He sees the interests of his Christian fellow-employees more or less taken care of, while any one may do what he will with him.
He is still bent over his workbench, but he feels terribly isolated. He is totally dependent on the good - will of the Nazi cell in charge of the factory mangement, or the group of party members who are the actual commissars of the plant. Do they feel so inclined, they allow him to works, it they change their mind and decide to send him away, all they need do to get rid of him is to notify the administration of their decision
A VERITABLE MARTYR
A Jewish worker in a German enterprise is a veritable martyr these days. He is watched and crutinized all day long by unfriendly eyes. It is no pleacure to find oneself for eight hours at a stretch, in such surroundings. He feels worse than a prisoner. He is among thirsty enemies. The very few radically minded workders that one still finds in German industry and who sympathize with their Jewish fellow-employees, cannot shoe his as much as a hint of their sympathy. They are afraid to give themselves away with a single friendly word, they are afraid of what may befall them if they do. A Christian worker who ventures to put in a communist, and who, in present day Germaby, is daring enough to be thought of as a communist and who is reckless enough to relish landing in a concentration camp?
THE ARTISAN'S PLIGHT
The Jewish situations of the factory worker. He cannot belong to the union of artisans and craftsmen organized and recognized by the government. He, too, belongs to those whom the present German government has isolated from the national industrial machine.
Not being organized any longer, the Jewish craftsman and artisan is no longer in a position to enjoy any of the benefits and rights which are now the sole privilege of his "Aryan" colleagues. He is shut off from all public life, cannot expect any orders and is dependent for a living on Jewish customers alone.
In the last analysis, the lot of the Jewish artisan may be somewhat beter than that of the Jewish factory worker in that he is more indepnedent. He need not fear that today or tomorrow he may find himself out of a job. He is not surrounded by Nazis on all sides, while at works; he perfoms his tasks in his own home or in his small shop where Nazi cells are unknown.
In one respect his plight is worse than that of the factory employee in that he is being openly boycotted. There is a decree in force according to which no government or municipal department, not any concern receiving a municipal subsidy, is permitted to order any articles from a Jewish craftsman. Charity institutions supplying the poor with shoes and clothing are not permitted to order these articles of Jewish shoemakers and tailors.
DIRECTORIES OF CRAFTSMEN
The policy of segregating the Jews in a ghetto has thus been as drastically carried out in the case of Jewish artisans as in the case of all other Jews. As a result of this policy, a number of Jewish communities in Berlin and other cities have begun to publish lists of Jewish craftsmen and artisans, appealing to the Jewish citizens to patronize their coreligionists. Special directories of Jewish artisans are now being issued, in order to inform the Jews where to apply whenever they are in need of the services of a Jewish craftsman.
Fifty thousand Jewish comon laborers and craftsmen are to be found in Germany today. Their situation is perhaps not as desperate as that of the Jewish lawyers and physicians, but it is far from enviable, very far, indeed.
(Further articles in this series will appear in the next few days.)
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"The Truth About Hilter’s War on the Jews." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 22 Jan 1934.
January 22, 1934
The Truth About Hilter’s War on the Jews
IV. THE JEWISH WORKER AND CRAFTMAN
403,969 Jews among 38,120,173 German!
HOW DO THEY FARE
Fifty thousand Jewish laborers and artisans - not including clerks and other white collar employees - are to be found in Prussia today. How are they faring under the new regime?
To begin with, under the present regime, Jewish workers are not allowed to belong to unions. They have also been kept out of the so-called Labor Front, created by the Hitler government to replace the tradeunions.
Not alone the workers, but the employers as well, are members of the Labor Front. In this, the German government has followed along the lines of Fascist Italy, on the premise that there is no class distinction between employers and employees.
This union of Capital and Labour in one organization from which Jews are expressly in a particularly sad plight. He is still employed, but his interests are no longer protected by any one. Should he lose his job, he will have to apply for work to a Jewish concern, because no organization affiliated with the Labor Front will give him employment.
JEWISH WORKER ISOLATED
The Labor Front has thus isolated the Jewish worker in a ghetto. It has done the same thing with the Jewish employer. The difference between the two elements, however, is this - while the Jewish employer, is compelled by the authorities to employ non-Jewish labor, there is nolaw forcing the non-Jewish employer to give jobs to Jewish workers who are members of the Labor Front, from which Jews are automatically excluded.
This is the reason why a jewish laborer in Germany, once he loses his job, has a very small chance of reemployment. No matter how badly he may be needed, he will not be hired. Not being a member of the Labor Front, he cannont obtain a job in a factory or plant owned by "Aryans," and his only resort is a firmwhich is still under Jewish control.
And how many such enterprises are still controlled by Jews in the Gemany of today? It is therefore quite obvious that no better common laborer in Germany. He may still be employed in his old job, but he rises every morning with the dreadful thought that this may be his last day there, that an "Aryan" may replace him, that he may be thrown out of the factory and that there will be nobody to protect his interests.
Finding himself in such a nervous state, it is easy to imagine what the Jewish common laborer in Germany, in constant fear of losing his job, has to undergo. His non-Jewish fellow workers are organized, and only he alone is left outside the pale, isolated and not belonging to an organization. He sees the interests of his Christian fellow-employees more or less taken care of, while any one may do what he will with him.
He is still bent over his workbench, but he feels terribly isolated. He is totally dependent on the good - will of the Nazi cell in charge of the factory mangement, or the group of party members who are the actual commissars of the plant. Do they feel so inclined, they allow him to works, it they change their mind and decide to send him away, all they need do to get rid of him is to notify the administration of their decision
A VERITABLE MARTYR
A Jewish worker in a German enterprise is a veritable martyr these days. He is watched and crutinized all day long by unfriendly eyes. It is no pleacure to find oneself for eight hours at a stretch, in such surroundings. He feels worse than a prisoner. He is among thirsty enemies. The very few radically minded workders that one still finds in German industry and who sympathize with their Jewish fellow-employees, cannot shoe his as much as a hint of their sympathy. They are afraid to give themselves away with a single friendly word, they are afraid of what may befall them if they do. A Christian worker who ventures to put in a communist, and who, in present day Germaby, is daring enough to be thought of as a communist and who is reckless enough to relish landing in a concentration camp?
THE ARTISAN'S PLIGHT
The Jewish situations of the factory worker. He cannot belong to the union of artisans and craftsmen organized and recognized by the government. He, too, belongs to those whom the present German government has isolated from the national industrial machine.
Not being organized any longer, the Jewish craftsman and artisan is no longer in a position to enjoy any of the benefits and rights which are now the sole privilege of his "Aryan" colleagues. He is shut off from all public life, cannot expect any orders and is dependent for a living on Jewish customers alone.
In the last analysis, the lot of the Jewish artisan may be somewhat beter than that of the Jewish factory worker in that he is more indepnedent. He need not fear that today or tomorrow he may find himself out of a job. He is not surrounded by Nazis on all sides, while at works; he perfoms his tasks in his own home or in his small shop where Nazi cells are unknown.
In one respect his plight is worse than that of the factory employee in that he is being openly boycotted. There is a decree in force according to which no government or municipal department, not any concern receiving a municipal subsidy, is permitted to order any articles from a Jewish craftsman. Charity institutions supplying the poor with shoes and clothing are not permitted to order these articles of Jewish shoemakers and tailors.
DIRECTORIES OF CRAFTSMEN
The policy of segregating the Jews in a ghetto has thus been as drastically carried out in the case of Jewish artisans as in the case of all other Jews. As a result of this policy, a number of Jewish communities in Berlin and other cities have begun to publish lists of Jewish craftsmen and artisans, appealing to the Jewish citizens to patronize their coreligionists. Special directories of Jewish artisans are now being issued, in order to inform the Jews where to apply whenever they are in need of the services of a Jewish craftsman.
Fifty thousand Jewish comon laborers and craftsmen are to be found in Germany today. Their situation is perhaps not as desperate as that of the Jewish lawyers and physicians, but it is far from enviable, very far, indeed.
(Further articles in this series will appear in the next few days.)
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"The Truth About Hilter’s War on the Jews." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 22 Jan 1934.
France a "spiritual community"
http://archive.jta.org/article/1940/10/24/2852257/baudoin-defends-legislation/
October 24, 1940
Baudoin Defends Legislation
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (JTA) –
The Petain Government's anti-Jewish legislation was defended by Foreign Minister Paul Baudoin in an interview with American newspapermen, in Vichy, the New York Herald Tribune reported today. The Vichy Government handled the Jewish question "not as a race problem but as a problem of national security," he said.
"The nation is a spiritual community," he went on. "Jews constitute a spiritual community distinct from the community of France that belongs to the soil. Therefore, as a matter of national security, we removed Jews from posts of command and from the teaching profession, which is entrusted with the mission of shaping and moulding future generations of Frenchmen.
"But we sought to avoid humiliating the Jews. We are not putting signs on the streets and shops branding them as Jews. Jews can still pursue most professions and careers, subject to the limitations in regard to the percentage of Jews to be admitted, which each profession will decide for itself."
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"Baudoin Defends Legislation." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 24 Oct 1940.
October 24, 1940
Baudoin Defends Legislation
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (JTA) –
The Petain Government's anti-Jewish legislation was defended by Foreign Minister Paul Baudoin in an interview with American newspapermen, in Vichy, the New York Herald Tribune reported today. The Vichy Government handled the Jewish question "not as a race problem but as a problem of national security," he said.
"The nation is a spiritual community," he went on. "Jews constitute a spiritual community distinct from the community of France that belongs to the soil. Therefore, as a matter of national security, we removed Jews from posts of command and from the teaching profession, which is entrusted with the mission of shaping and moulding future generations of Frenchmen.
"But we sought to avoid humiliating the Jews. We are not putting signs on the streets and shops branding them as Jews. Jews can still pursue most professions and careers, subject to the limitations in regard to the percentage of Jews to be admitted, which each profession will decide for itself."
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"Baudoin Defends Legislation." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 24 Oct 1940.
Vichy Issues Numerus Clausus for Colleges Professions
http://archive.jta.org/article/1941/06/25/2854649/vichy-issues-numerus-clausus-for-colleges-professions/
June 25, 1941
Vichy Issues Numerus Clausus for Colleges Professions
VICHY, Jun. 24 (JTA) –
The Government today issued a decree restricting the proportion of Jews in universities to three per cent and in liberal professions to two per cent. Exemptions were provided for members of Jewish families long settled in France and priority rights for children of front-fighters.
The decree is part of an anti-Jewish legislative program announced by Xavier Vallat, Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, on June 13.
Pierre Mendes-France, Finance Undersecretary in the Blum government, who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by the Vichy authorities on a charge of "desertion behind the lines," has escaped from a hospital where he was held under guard, it was announced.
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"Vichy Issues Numerus Clausus for Colleges Professions." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 25 Jun 1941.
Nazis Start Expulsion of Jews from Warsaw Ghetto; Community President Commits Suicide
http://archive.jta.org/article/1942/08/17/2858512/nazis-start-expulsion-of-jews-from-warsaw-ghetto-community-president-commits-suicide/
August 17, 1942
(The Judenrat and its hero)
Nazis Start Expulsion of Jews from Warsaw Ghetto; Community President Commits Suicide
LONDON, Aug. 16 (JTA) –
Mass-expulsion of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto "to an unknown destination in the east" was begun by the Nazis last week, according to reliable information reaching the Polish Government-in-Exile here today. At least 7,000 Jews are now being deported from Warsaw daily, the report said.
Dr. Cherniakov, president of the Jewish Council in the Warsaw ghetto, committed suicide rather than acquiesce in the order of the Nazi authorities that he submit a list of 100,000 Jews to be deported. He had been the head of the Jewish community in Warsaw since the outbreak of the war in 1939. Remaining in the same office following the Nazi occupation, he was held by the Nazi administration personally responsible for the activities of the Jews in the ghetto.
Three other members of the Jewish Council in the Warsaw ghetto are reported to have attempted suicide as a result of the pressure of the Nazi authorities in Warsaw upon the Jewish Council to "cooperate" in the deportation of the Jews from the ghetto. The Jewish Council is said to have been dissolved by the Nazi administration.
PANIC AMONG JEWS IN WARSAW; FATE OF DEPORTEES IS UNKNOWN
Unprecedented panic has spread among the Jews in Warsaw as a result of the deportations, according to the reports received here. No indication whatever is given by the Nazis as to the fate of the deportees, except that they are being sent to occupied Russian territory. The fear prevails that the victims are slaughtered by the Nazis on their way to the alleged "unknown distinction in the east."
The report received by the Polish Government-in-Exile here lacks details as to the system which the Nazis apply in the deportations. It remains unknown for the time being as to whether entire families are being expelled, or whether the deportation is separating husbands from wives and parents from children. The report indicates that further severe anti-Jewish measures may be expected in occupied Poland before the summer is over.
The two Jewish members of the Polish National Council, Dr. Ignacy Schwarzbart and Samuel Zygelbaum, today paid tribute to the martyrdom of Dr. Cherniakov, who preferred to take his life rather than give approval to the Nazi deportations. Zygelbaum, who escaped from the Warsaw ghetto six months after the Nazi occupation, revealed that Cherniakov, who is a chemist by profession, always carried with him a vial of poison to be used for such contingencies where there was no escape from the Nazi pressure except through suicide.
Dr. Cherniakov, several times before, resisted the orders of the Nazi occupational authorities. In 1939 he refused their demand that Jewish girls be delivered by the Warsaw Jewish Council to German military brothels.
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"Nazis Start Expulsion of Jews from Warsaw Ghetto; Community President Commits Suicide." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 17 Aug 1942.
August 17, 1942
(The Judenrat and its hero)
Nazis Start Expulsion of Jews from Warsaw Ghetto; Community President Commits Suicide
LONDON, Aug. 16 (JTA) –
Mass-expulsion of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto "to an unknown destination in the east" was begun by the Nazis last week, according to reliable information reaching the Polish Government-in-Exile here today. At least 7,000 Jews are now being deported from Warsaw daily, the report said.
Dr. Cherniakov, president of the Jewish Council in the Warsaw ghetto, committed suicide rather than acquiesce in the order of the Nazi authorities that he submit a list of 100,000 Jews to be deported. He had been the head of the Jewish community in Warsaw since the outbreak of the war in 1939. Remaining in the same office following the Nazi occupation, he was held by the Nazi administration personally responsible for the activities of the Jews in the ghetto.
Three other members of the Jewish Council in the Warsaw ghetto are reported to have attempted suicide as a result of the pressure of the Nazi authorities in Warsaw upon the Jewish Council to "cooperate" in the deportation of the Jews from the ghetto. The Jewish Council is said to have been dissolved by the Nazi administration.
PANIC AMONG JEWS IN WARSAW; FATE OF DEPORTEES IS UNKNOWN
Unprecedented panic has spread among the Jews in Warsaw as a result of the deportations, according to the reports received here. No indication whatever is given by the Nazis as to the fate of the deportees, except that they are being sent to occupied Russian territory. The fear prevails that the victims are slaughtered by the Nazis on their way to the alleged "unknown distinction in the east."
The report received by the Polish Government-in-Exile here lacks details as to the system which the Nazis apply in the deportations. It remains unknown for the time being as to whether entire families are being expelled, or whether the deportation is separating husbands from wives and parents from children. The report indicates that further severe anti-Jewish measures may be expected in occupied Poland before the summer is over.
The two Jewish members of the Polish National Council, Dr. Ignacy Schwarzbart and Samuel Zygelbaum, today paid tribute to the martyrdom of Dr. Cherniakov, who preferred to take his life rather than give approval to the Nazi deportations. Zygelbaum, who escaped from the Warsaw ghetto six months after the Nazi occupation, revealed that Cherniakov, who is a chemist by profession, always carried with him a vial of poison to be used for such contingencies where there was no escape from the Nazi pressure except through suicide.
Dr. Cherniakov, several times before, resisted the orders of the Nazi occupational authorities. In 1939 he refused their demand that Jewish girls be delivered by the Warsaw Jewish Council to German military brothels.
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"Nazis Start Expulsion of Jews from Warsaw Ghetto; Community President Commits Suicide." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 17 Aug 1942.
Hitler Plans to “liquidate” Warsaw Ghetto
http://archive.jta.org/article/1942/03/03/2856962/hitler-plans-to-liquidate-warsaw-ghetto-all-jews-to-be-sent-to-lublin-reservation/
March 3, 1942
Hitler Plans to “liquidate” Warsaw Ghetto; All Jews to Be Sent to Lublin Reservation
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 2 (JTA) –
A plan to "liquidate" the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw and to transfer all the 500,000 Jews confined there to a "reservation" in the Lublin district is now being worked out by Nazi authorities in Berlin, according to a report published in the Nazi newspaper Warschauer Zeitung which reached here today.
The report says that the order to prepare such a plan came directly from Hitler. The plan provides that the Warsaw ghetto is to become "Judenrein" by the end of 1946.
In informing the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto that they will not be permitted to remain even there, the Warschauer Zeitung states that the Nazi authorities intend to reconstruct the ghetto section of the city into a modern quarter of Warsaw by demolishing the old buildings and erecting new modern apartment houses which will be restricted to Germans only. A Nazi official named Dr. Fischer has been entrusted with working out all the details of the transfer of the Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Lublin reservation, the Nazi newspaper reports.
NAZI EMPLOYERS RECEIVE NEW INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO EXPLOIT JEWISH LABOR
Coupled with this new announcement of the revival of the "Lublin reservation plan" which the Nazis gave up in 1940, the authorities in Germany this week clarified the special labor legislation which they have introduced for Jewish and Polish workers in Germany and which they are now extending to Russian forced labor. The "clarified" slave labor regulations point out that apart from previously announced restrictions for Jewish and Polish laborers, the following instructions are to be carried out:
1. Jews should be used as far as possible for unskilled work only.
2. As war prisoners, Jews should be set to work in groups only. In cases where the National Labor Exchange allows exceptions, the Jews working singly must be kept separated from the non-Jewish workers.
3. German employers may force Jewish and Polish workers to work on official holidays. They can ask them to work on Sundays and extra hours without paying them for overtime.
4. Jewish and Polish workers are not to receive any pay for days of enforced idleness due to shortage of raw materials, or transportation difficulties, or breakdowns in the plants where they are working.
5. In case of sickness, no wages are to be paid to Jewish and Polish workers.
The new instructions also provide that when a Jewish worker meets with an accident during work, the Nazi employer is no longer obliged to pay him any wages. He is, however, permitted to give the disabled Jewish worker an allowance sufficient to keep him alive until he is able to return to work.
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"Hitler Plans to “liquidate” Warsaw Ghetto; All Jews to Be Sent to Lublin Reservation." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 3 Mar 1942.
March 3, 1942
Hitler Plans to “liquidate” Warsaw Ghetto; All Jews to Be Sent to Lublin Reservation
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 2 (JTA) –
A plan to "liquidate" the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw and to transfer all the 500,000 Jews confined there to a "reservation" in the Lublin district is now being worked out by Nazi authorities in Berlin, according to a report published in the Nazi newspaper Warschauer Zeitung which reached here today.
The report says that the order to prepare such a plan came directly from Hitler. The plan provides that the Warsaw ghetto is to become "Judenrein" by the end of 1946.
In informing the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto that they will not be permitted to remain even there, the Warschauer Zeitung states that the Nazi authorities intend to reconstruct the ghetto section of the city into a modern quarter of Warsaw by demolishing the old buildings and erecting new modern apartment houses which will be restricted to Germans only. A Nazi official named Dr. Fischer has been entrusted with working out all the details of the transfer of the Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Lublin reservation, the Nazi newspaper reports.
NAZI EMPLOYERS RECEIVE NEW INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO EXPLOIT JEWISH LABOR
Coupled with this new announcement of the revival of the "Lublin reservation plan" which the Nazis gave up in 1940, the authorities in Germany this week clarified the special labor legislation which they have introduced for Jewish and Polish workers in Germany and which they are now extending to Russian forced labor. The "clarified" slave labor regulations point out that apart from previously announced restrictions for Jewish and Polish laborers, the following instructions are to be carried out:
1. Jews should be used as far as possible for unskilled work only.
2. As war prisoners, Jews should be set to work in groups only. In cases where the National Labor Exchange allows exceptions, the Jews working singly must be kept separated from the non-Jewish workers.
3. German employers may force Jewish and Polish workers to work on official holidays. They can ask them to work on Sundays and extra hours without paying them for overtime.
4. Jewish and Polish workers are not to receive any pay for days of enforced idleness due to shortage of raw materials, or transportation difficulties, or breakdowns in the plants where they are working.
5. In case of sickness, no wages are to be paid to Jewish and Polish workers.
The new instructions also provide that when a Jewish worker meets with an accident during work, the Nazi employer is no longer obliged to pay him any wages. He is, however, permitted to give the disabled Jewish worker an allowance sufficient to keep him alive until he is able to return to work.
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"Hitler Plans to “liquidate” Warsaw Ghetto; All Jews to Be Sent to Lublin Reservation." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 3 Mar 1942.
Babi Yar
http://archive.jta.org/article/1941/11/16/2855789/nazis-execute-52000-jews-in-kiev-smaller-pogroms-in-other-cities/
SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE, Nov. 14 (JTA) –
(ME)
Fifty-two thousand Jews, including man, women and children, were systematically and methodically put to death in Kiev following the Nazi occupation of the Ukrainian capital, according to information received today by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from an unimpeachable source.
The details available here establish that the victims did not lose their lives as the result of a mob pogrom, but by systematic, merciless execution carried out in accordance with cold-blooded Nazi policy of Jewish extermination. Similar measures, though on a smaller scale, have been taken in other conquered towns.
Information available in diplomatic quarters here reveals that deportations of Jews to Poland from Germany and German-occupied territories continue, resulting in mass suicides of German Jews. In Berlin alone 250 Jews committed suicide in one day after receiving deportation notices. The deportees are told that they can take with them 100 marks each, but at the railway station they are ordered to pay 90 marks for transportation and are thus left with ten marks, which is nominally $4.00.
[Editor's note 2011: This article refers to the 1941 massacre known as Babi Yar.]
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"Nazis Execute 52,000 Jews in Kiev; Smaller Pogroms in Other Cities." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 16 Nov 1941.
SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE, Nov. 14 (JTA) –
(ME)
Fifty-two thousand Jews, including man, women and children, were systematically and methodically put to death in Kiev following the Nazi occupation of the Ukrainian capital, according to information received today by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from an unimpeachable source.
The details available here establish that the victims did not lose their lives as the result of a mob pogrom, but by systematic, merciless execution carried out in accordance with cold-blooded Nazi policy of Jewish extermination. Similar measures, though on a smaller scale, have been taken in other conquered towns.
Information available in diplomatic quarters here reveals that deportations of Jews to Poland from Germany and German-occupied territories continue, resulting in mass suicides of German Jews. In Berlin alone 250 Jews committed suicide in one day after receiving deportation notices. The deportees are told that they can take with them 100 marks each, but at the railway station they are ordered to pay 90 marks for transportation and are thus left with ten marks, which is nominally $4.00.
[Editor's note 2011: This article refers to the 1941 massacre known as Babi Yar.]
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"Nazis Execute 52,000 Jews in Kiev; Smaller Pogroms in Other Cities." Jewish Telegraphic Agency 16 Nov 1941.
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