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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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11

MONDAY

Rejection letter

Dismissed from the post office for being Jewish, Johanna seeks new employment

“I am 37 years old, worked for the Berlin post office for 14 years and was dismissed because of the Aryan Paragraph. The office was very satisfied with my performance.”

Berlin

“The position under discussion has been filled,” was the terse answer Johanna Rosenthal, a former postal clerk, received to her application for a job as a telephone operator. After 14 years of service with the Deutsche Reichspost, she had been dismissed at the end of 1933. As she points out in her letter, her employment in public service as a Jew has been made impossible by the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.” The provisional pension of 68 Reichsmark that she had been granted was not enough to live on, so she sought new employment.


TAGS: ANTISEMITISM, BERLIN, ECONOMIC PERSECUTION, IMPOVERISHMENT, JULY 11, LETTER, NAZI LAWS, NAZI POLICIES, PERSECUTION OF JEWISH PROFESSIONALS

SOURCE

Institution:

Deutsches Historisches Museum

Original:

Johanna Rosenthal's application with negative response ; Inv. Nr. Do2 2002/762

 

on the days before

July 10
Papers in order
July 9
It will get easier
July 8
Staff exodus

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