All but one of the Jewish physicians were dismissed today from the Children’s Hospital, which was founded a decade ago by an American Jewish philanthropist. Salaries were paid out until the end of May.
Chief Prosecutor Dr. Geroe, leader of the Austrian Sports Organization, was surprisingly dismissed after the revelation that he was of Jewish descent.
Dr. Desider Friedmann, president of the Vienna Jewish Community, has been transferred from the Dachau concentration camp, near Munich, to Vienna, it was understood today, and he is being held under police custody. Previous reports had stated Dr. Friedmann had been transferred to the new Salzburg concentration camp, where his wife hoped to see him.
The Jewish hotel and cafe, Excelsior, which was “Aryanized” following Anschluss and renamed Berchtesgaden, after Hitler’s mountain retreat, was returned today to its Jewish owner to prevent bankruptcy and dismissal of “Aryan” employees. Signs announcing “Only Aryan Guests Wanted” were removed.
The Volks Opera and the Scala, Femina and Ronacher Theaters are continuing to play works by Jewish authors, whose names, however, are omitted from the programs. The authors are deprived of royalties. In addition, Jewish owners of cinemas under Nazi commissars are receiving nothing of the receipts.
By arrangement with Jewish restaurants, 50 unemployed Jewish actors obtain meals at nominal prices. It is hoped that the arrangement will be extended to many hundreds of actors.
The Reichspost, Austrian clerical organ, declared American Jews had been told that the Austrian Jews had been taken under “the special protection of Roosevelt,” and that the British House of Commons had shown a similar protective tendency.
“If England, with its great colonies, has no place for Jews, how can the Third Reich be expected to continue to play host to the Jews?” The paper asked in an editorial entitled, “Palestine and Austrian Jewry.”
It quoted William G.A. Ormsby-Gore, british Secretary of State for Colonies, as declaring there was no place for great Jewish settlement in the British Empire. The Reichs-post commented that not many Jews would go to Palestine because they preferred other countries and because the Palestine quota was insufficient.
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