Charlotte Berner, Jewish singer who appeared with the Chicago Opera Company in 1924, vanished today from her pension, leaving a note to explain her disappearance.
“I have no more strength to live in my own Fatherland,” she wrote.
The opera singer is a native of Leipzig. Recently she was dismissed from her theatrical engagements as a result of the Nazi ban on Jewish artists.
All the Jewish directors of the well-known firm of Ferdinand Faber were arrested this morning at Cologne on the pretext of filing false income tax returns. This charge is a new feature in the liquidation of Jewish-controlled firms.
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