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Jewish Women Judges Among Those Dismissed

August 9, 1933
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Elsa Guttmann, Ruth Wolfson, Eva Schuster and Erna Proskauer, four Jewish women judges, were dismissed today as part of the wholesale dismissal of Jewish attorneys and judges which is continuing unabated.

Dr. Arthur Lilienthal, well known leader of the Berlin Jewish Kehillah, was among the 180 Jewish judges who were dismissed from their posts, according to the official communique issued this afternoon.

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