Restrictions on Jews in using street cars have been introduced in Cracow, Nazi-occupied Poland, and Budweis, in the Protectorate.
The Nazi newspaper Krakauer Zeitung publishes an announcement by the chief of the Cracow municipal administration that special Jewish compartments will be introduced in trams for “sanitary reasons.” Jews are allowed to use only the rear half of attached cars. On lines where single cars are used, the conductors must divide the interior by a movable barrier into Jewish and non-Jewish compartments.
In Budweis, southern Bchemia, first town in the Protectorate to introduce such restrictions, Jews may stand only on platforms of tramcars, according to the Schlesische Zeitung.
The Nazi press quotes Dr. Moses Kirschbaum, general secretary of the Hlinka Party, as demanding complete elimination of the Jews from the economic life of Slovakia.
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