“NOT EXAGGERATED”
PERSECUTION OF JEWS GERMAN EXILES ARRIVE DR, JACOBY’S COMMENT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. "The stories you have heard about the persecution’"of the Jews in Germany, particularly in the cities, are not exaggerated. Those of us w’ho have travelled across the world to New Zealand look forward to kindness and freedom in your democratic and beautiful country.” This statement was made by Dr. E. G. Jacoby, a distinguished German legal authority who accompanied by his wife, is one of a contingent of 49 German and Austrian Jews who arrived by the Niagara this morning. Seventeen of the party disembarked, and others are travelling to Australia. Dr. Jacoby, who is half Jewish, is married to a German girl who, despite the fact She satisfies all the Aryan requirements of Herr Hitler's Germany, must suffer exile with her husband. Dr. Jacoby was assistant secretary of the Prussian Ministry of Commerce before 1933. With the rise of Herr Hitle* - he was forced to resign. The law compelled all Jewish banks to be liquidated. Dr. Jacoby hopes to .take up commercial work in New Zealand
"In Germany to-day, the Jews are considered good enough only to pay taxes, but not good enough to earn a living and be happy citizens,” said Dr. Jacoby
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19692, 26 July 1938, Page 7
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212“NOT EXAGGERATED” Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19692, 26 July 1938, Page 7
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