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The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin presents the year 1938 through the eyes of Jews, whose personal documents detail their experiences and the hardships they suffered as well as the growing tensions in Europe and diminishing hope for Jews in Germany and Austria.

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SUNDAY

Discrimination and arrests

One day after the Anschluss, hostility against Austrian Jews escalates

Vienna

After their triumphant entry into Austria, the Nazis lost no time in intimidating the country’s Jews and forcing them out of positions of influence and out of society at large. Prominent bankers and businessmen were arrested, other Jews—especially those employed in fields that were considered “Jewish,” such as the theater and the press—removed from office and replaced by “Aryans.” At the same time that the atmosphere in Austria became unbearably hostile towards Jews, organizations aiming to facilitate Jewish emigration to Palestine were raided and it was announced that the passports of “certain people” would be voided. It bears mentioning that the number of Jews in Austria in March 1938 was about 206,000—no more than 3% of the total population.


TAGS: ANSCHLUSS, ANTISEMITISM, ARYANIZATION, EMIGRATION, IMPRISONMENT, JOURNALISM, JTA, MARCH 13, MEDIA COVERAGE, PALESTINE, PERSECUTION OF JEWISH PROFESSIONALS, PROMINENT PEOPLE, VIENNA, VIOLENCE

SOURCE

Institution:

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Collection:

“Drive Launched to Reduce Jews to Reich Status”

Source available in English

 

on the days before

March 12
The Unthinkable
March 11
Calm before the storm
March 24
“Degenerate”

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