A JEW’S WANDERINGS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 80, 28 December 1935, Page 16

A JEW’S WANDERINGS

Rejected From Eight Countries

Pleading guilty to being an alien found in the United Kingdom while a deportation order was in force against him, Joseph Schaffer, a Jewish tailor, of Langdale Mansions, Langdale Street, Stepney, was at Old Street remanded. P.O. Westcott said Schaffer was a Rumanian by birth. He came to England in 1907. A deportation order was made against him in September, 1927, following previous convictions. In 1933 he reached England again as a stowaway.

Schaffer said that in 1916 he joined the 28th Middlesex Regiment, and was discharged with a good character. “After I was deported,” he added, “I was taken to the Rumanian border,

kept in custody for a week, and sent to the town where I was born. After two months I was told to go, and was put across the Czechoslovakian border, where I was arrested and sent back to Rumania.” He reached the Austrian part of Czechoslovakia, where he was again arrested, given a month’s imprisonment and put over the Gorman border. He was not allowed there and in France, Switzerland and Belgium he received the same treatment. “I reached Germany again,” Schaffer continued, “in 1933. I was arrested and held for live and a half months without a charge and ‘beaten up.’ I -was then given 15 days in which to leave the country.”