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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

Denied the right to make a living

Lawyers and market vendors are banned from their professions

Vienna

According to this JTA notice, April 3, 1938, marked an additional milestone in the curtailment of the professional freedom of Austrian Jews. From this day on, the Ministry of Justice could revoke at will the licenses of Jewish lawyers, with the exception of those who had been admitted to the bar before 1914 or were war veterans or the direct descendents of war veterans. Between 800 and 900 lawyers were estimated to be affected by the new provision. Another professional group that was impacted by the effects of Nazi policy was market vendors. Jews operating mobile as well as permanent stands were no longer entitled to make a living this way. Moreover, in the short period since the Nazi takeover, the first “Aryanizations” of Jewish-owned factories had already taken place.


TAGS: ANTISEMITISM, APRIL 3, ARYANIZATION, ECONOMIC PERSECUTION, JOURNALISM, JTA, MEDIA COVERAGE, NAZI LAWS, NAZI POLICIES, PERSECUTION OF JEWISH PROFESSIONALS, VIENNA, WWI VETERANS

SOURCE

Institution:

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Collection:

“Austria Acts to Bar Jews from Law, Public Markets; 3 Arrested”

Source available in English

 

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