INFORMATION ISSUED by the ASSOCIATION of JEWISH REFUGEES in GREAT BRITAIN
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Volume XXVIII No. 4 April, 1973 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOCIATION Of JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN «»"' Freeden banned an exhibition of anti-Nazi posters. Winston Churchill was one of those who pro tested most outspokenly. Goebbels, in an interview with London's 40 YEARS SINCE BOYCOTT-DAY "Observer', said that "the German people were now prepared to let thc Jewish question Wjf "^^ historians say that the Second World ordered by the National Socialists be carried rest . , unless they were again provoked by On i'^ "Ot start on September 3, 1939, but out, it would spell the ruin of hundreds of world Jewry". Nevertheless, the "Vblkischer 1. 1933, for the Nazis' declaration of thousands of German Jewish citizens and Beobachter" dated April 4, announced 15 boy tiijij"" ^Sainst German Jewry was in fact their expulsion from the German community. cott meetings all over Berlin, and Julius Oft .L °^claration of war against civilisation Thc German Jews have stood the test in war Streicher promised that all "Aryan" shops would receive signs to mark them as such. xodgf! other hand, there is a tendency to and peace, in times good and bad, have been "•en ^^^ ^^'^^ ^^y' forty years ago, when SA part cf that community and wish to remain Mussolini granted an audience to the then Je\j,j,P''e vented customers from entering so". Even the Right-wing "Deutsche All Chief Rabbi of Rome, Dr. Saccrdoti, who des itifi n(r^'^°^^' ''"^ ^ number of houses, stores gemeinc Zeitung" suggested that thc situation cribed to him thc plight of German Jewry. In dej^ . ^. '''^'cre demolished—what was this lye re-examined and hoped for a change of his answer, Mussolini "expressed confidence hoio "'''•'•ation •'^ compared with the heart. that those deplorable conditions would soon to bp ^^ that followed later? It turned out On Friday, the 30th of March, there was revert to normal". Dr. Benesh, at that time April tragedy of Europe that the 1st of indeed a change. In the evening, Gocbbels Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, pleaded \\as underrated also in 1933. spoke over the radio. His broadcast was re for extending the protection of minorities to layed from a mass meeting of "Amitswalter" German Jews. American Jewry was roused ^the early months of that year. Hitler and deeply stirred. In New York, thc Voyi? cautiously. A pogrom at that time in which he gave the directives for the boy cott—interrupted by thundering applau.se. -American Jewish Congress convened a con cspg"cspep-] ,"''v"''Ve met with unfavourablunfavour e reactions, ference attended by 1,500 delegates re Couijl'ly abroad, which the new regime roaring laughter and the deafening shouting of "Heil". However, the change was drastic. presenting 600 Jewish organisations, which S?the Y,,!t , pf'ford. The Nazi„s wanted to ,prov e to handed a mass petition to the U.S. Govern but n° ^^^^ they were no rabble rousers The official boycott, planned to be permanent, was confined to one day only, mainly for fear ment and the League of Nations to improve the ^^'^t-worthy and trust-worthy partners in the lot of German Jewry. "^ed ri ''^ of Western nations. What they of damage to the German economy. ^u Was moral and financial credit. Soon, however, public interest in German the ^'^'^coicile statesman-like behaviour with Uneasiness in Britain "domestic affairs"—as the dangerous phrase Wcf "^P^^t antiscmitism which their fo! ran—died down, and an abortive debate at '«rs the League of Nations in Geneva, on the On expected, the Government embarked No doubt to some major extent world reac "•oin Policy of gradually excluding the Jews tion, too, was responsible for this retreat. In violation of minority rights in Upper Silesia, Ijsjp I economic life, over a period which England, great uneasiness was displayed at remained for a long time to come the last sj^yl" n\e and a half years. When the Nazis both Houses of Parliament. Viscount Cecil attempt to di.scuss the Jewish position in Ger Jtm (T't the morale of the Jews was too high spoke in the House of Lords on March 30. many before an international forum. ''larip "^ rate of emigration too slow, they pointing out that Brilaiin, as holding the Man an'|ed their tactics, and in November, 1938, date over Palestine, was closely linked to the 'Say ''^^'ish communal, cultural and organ- Jewish people. Lord Hailsham. replying for CLAIMS AGAINST EAST GERMANY thifj'^^1 activities were stamped out. The the Government, denied that this Mandate 1942 '''^^^^i the "6nal solution", began in entitled Britain generally to intervene on In the House of Lords. Baroness Tweeds muir. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, behalf of Jewish rights in foreign countrics. (Icall witii the attitude of the British Govern iHe^, April, 1933, Germany vvas still a Lord Reading, speaking as a member of the ment towards the admission of West and hel^oer of the League of Nations. At the Jewish community, appealed to the Govern East Germany to the United Nations and Vo '^^ the Reich stood President Hinden- ment to do everything possible to help thc towards thc recognition of East Germany as "ICQ ^^'^0, only eight months before, had persecuted Jewish minority in Germany, and a sovereign State. Lord Jaimer took the oppor Gof again re-stated the civic rights of he was forcefully supported by the Arch tunity to stress the need for the East Germans bishop of Canterbury, Lord Lang, and by to pay reparations in recognition of their nart the ,^" Jewry. No wonder that the organ of in the persecution of the Jews under the Nazi V f."^^*- Jewish organisation, the "C.V." Lord Iddeslei^^h, speaking for the Catholics. regime. He felt that the East Germans should ^ICM '"^^"^ German Jews are deeply con The array of the three denominations adopt tho policy of West Germany if they ":ed 511, that President Hindenburg will not which was repeated in the House of wanted to become part of the United Nations an attack on the constitutional rights Commons, evoked a noteworthy statement or any other international body. Agreeing Sroup of German citizens". from the then Foreign Secretary, Sir John that Lord Janner had raised an important In matter. Baroness Tweedsmuir said it was out "'iv course of the month of March, the Simon. The debate, he said, had expressed side the scope of the matter before thc House tirow "Machinery launched its first gigantic the general feeling of tho country. It would and she advised him to raise it again. ahf^^Sanda drive, alleging that the Jews be a fimdancntal error, if someone in some ^er^ ^''cre undermining the prestige of the country assumed that this feeling was At the Board of Deputies, Dr. S. J. Roth, "^itj " Government by propagating a boy- confined to member.^ of the Jewish com European director of the World Jewish Con- ^toH^"'''"st Germaay and spreading atrocity munity, or evoked by them. On the contrary, gress, expressed the hope that the Govern he declared, it was a spontaneous and in- ment would look sympathetically towards thj^ *;?• l^n mere "self-defence", to counter Jewish efforts to obtain restitution from East totj] threat", the new regime proclaimed a o'itable expression of thc principle of racial Germany for the victims of Nazism. Britain, Ml ooycott of German Jewry, once and for tolerance. he .said, could play an important role in the the commence on April 1. No other than Commander LocUcr-Lnrnpson. a Con matter, since she was now establishing diplo I'Stjj'^otorious Julius Sti-eicher, editor of the matic contact with East Germany and could, servative M.P., became chairman of a com therefore, convev the demands of former Ger ''Cg^^^r", was appointed chairman of the mittee which was to study the Jewish posi W-'ral Boycott Committee" ("Zentral- man refugees wishing to be compensated. "(1(11^*^ ^ur Abwehr der Jiidischen Greucl- tion in Germany. Mr. Attlee was among those who sent a message of encouragement to a The Council of Jews from Germany, _ Soykott-Hetze"). of which the AJR is the British constituent. protest meeting in London's East End on is actively associated with the present efforts sp^'l^^'c wore -still voices in Germany to April 1. Ton days later, there was a stormy of thc ma.ior Jewish organi.sations in this mat 'loei "P- "^^^ "Vossische Zeitung", Berlin, debate in tiie House of Commons because Sir ter. We shall keep our readers informed on lared: "Should the boycott which has been John Gilmour, then Home Secretary, had any further development. Page 2 AJR INFORMATION April, 19Ta C. I. Kapralik Erreichung der Altersgrenze die Versicherten Anspruch auf zwei Sonderzahlungen (Mai und Oktobor) haben werden. Die Erhohung der Beitragsgrundlage wurde in Oesterreich aus WEITERES AUS DER OESTERREICfflSCHEN dem Kreise der freiwillig Versicherten wieder holt verlangt, da sie zu einer hoheren Pension SOZIALVERSICHERUNG fiJhrt. Wir haben hereits in der vorigen Ausgabe zeiten, Arbeit im Gewerbebetrieb der Eltern Die Novelle schafft auch die Moglichkcit kurz iiber einige Bestimmungen der jiingst usw., Oder Tiitigkeit als Lehrer, Musiker etc., riickwirkend um Erhohung der Beitragsgrund erlassenen 29. Novelle zum ASVG berichtet. wiircn nachzubringen. Was insbesondere den lage fiir die Jahre 1969 bis 1972 zu cr.uchen, Nachweis iiber Mitarbeit im Betrieb der Eltem und zwar Wir veroffentlichen nunmehr einen umfas- fiir die am 31.12.1968 Weiterversicherten -senden Artikel iiber die Bestimmimgen der etc. anbetrifft, wiiren Ausziige aus dem Firmen-bezw. Gewerbcregistcr beizubringen, kann die Beitragsgrundlage fiir jene Monate Novelle soweit sie fiJr Opfer des Nazi-Regimes des Jahres 1969, fur die Beitriige entrichtet aus Oesterreich bedeutsam sind.