About 400 Jewish souls, the families of 80 Jewish market-traders in Koenigshuette, in Upper Silesia, are suffering serious economic hardship because of anti-Jewish disorimination by the local authorities who refuse to allow any Jews to held stalls in the market-places, the organisation of Jewish small traders in Koenigshuette complains in a letter received here by the Yiddish daily “Najer Hajnt”. We have already approached every possible quarter for help, but without avail, the letter says, and as a last hope we are turning to the Jewish press, because publicity may do something to put a stop to this anti-Jewish action.
For the last ten years Jews have been allowed to trade in the market places of Koenighuette without hindrance, the letter explains, but for the last few months the local authorities have been enforcing a law which was issued by the Germans years ago when Koenigshuette belonged to Germany, which prohibits certain articles being sold in certain market places. But it is being enforced only against Jewish traders and in such a way that it is made impossible for Jewish traders to sell anything anywhere, while non-Jewish traders are not interfered with at all. We appeal to Jewish public opinion and to the Jewish organisations in the country to intervene on our behalf against this anti-Jewish discrimination, the letter says.
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