Jews Exiled From Germany

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 174, 26 July 1938, Page 7

Jews Exiled From Germany

STORIES OF PERSECUTION NOT EXAGGERATED Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 23 "The stories you have heard afcout the persecution of Jews in Germany, particularly in the cities, are not exaggerated. Those of us who have travelled across the world to New Zealand look forward to the kindness an£ freedom of your democratic and beautiful country.” This statement was made by Dr. E. G. Jacoby, a distinguished German legal authority who, accompanied by his wife, was one of a contingent of 49 German apd Austrian Jews who arrived by the Niagara this morning. Seventeen of the party disembarked at Auckland; others are travelling to Australia. Dr. Jacoby, who is half -Jewish, is married to a German girl who, despite the fact that she satisfies all the Aryan requirements to Hitler’s Germany, must suffer exile with her husband. Dr. Jacoby was assistant-secretary to the Prussian Ministry of Commerce before 1933. With the rise of Hitler he was forced to resign the position. He got a position with a Jewish bank after a year’s unemployment, but after four years the law compelled all Jewish banks to be liquidated. He hopes to take up commercial work in New Zealand. "In Germany to-day,” he says, "Jews are considered to be good enough only to pay taxes but are not good enough to earn their living and be happy citizens.” PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS MEN PARTIES LANDING IN DOMINION Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Dr. Jacoby hopes to enter commercial life in New Zealand. With his wife and 15 fellow-refugees on the Niagara, lio also looks forward to peacefulness and security under the democratic laws of New Zealand. Other refugees who landed at Auckland included doctors, a lawyer, bank lerks and commercial men. A larger party, numbering over 30, including two Jews from Vienna, were through passengers by the Niagara for Sydney.