In connection with the economy measures taken by the Berlin City Council, a large number of non-German Jewish families have been notified that the doles paid out to them will not be paid in future, and if these families make any further application to the municipal welfare office they will be immediately deported, Herr Moses Goldmann, a member of the Zionist People’s Party, said at the last meeting of the Berlin Jewish Community.
Has the Board of the Community, he asked, any knowledge of this, and what steps does it intend to take to protect these families?
Herr Alfred Berger, another member of the Zionist People’s Party, said that some of the lower officials were making a practice of demanding their passports from foreign Jews who have been residents for many years in Berlin, and in that way exposing them to the danger of deportation, when they could not produce their passports when called upon to do so. He was convinced, he said, that these lower officials were acting without the authority of their superiors.
Dr. Wilhelm Kleemann, the Chairman of the Board of the Community, said that the Welfare Office of the Jewish Community had already taken steps in regard to these matters, and would try to settle them in a favourable manner.
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