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AUSTRIAN JEWESSES ENGLISH EMPLOYERS' FEARS LONDON, Oct. « Austrian girls dismissed from domes tic service in England during the crisis are flocking to refugee agencies and shelters. Many are Viennese Jewesses in their early twenties, who hold Austrian passports, and because of that there is no Embassy or Consulate to* protect them. Some of them are penniless.
One girl, who had only four shillings, explained: "The mistress said she was sorry, but I would be put in a concentration camp, and she would be blamed for harbouring a German. She gave no references because she did not desire to disclose her name." Two former typists, who were dismissed from their posts as general ser vants, said that they had pleased their employers, who. however, had said that, in the event of a food shortage, they preferred to feed English girls. The official Austrian Self-aid Committee said that one girl, a former Viennese medical student, did housework for five people in a seven-roomed dwelling from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily for 10s a week, and slept in the bathroom.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23169, 15 October 1938, Page 14
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