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Oskar Hirschfeld, Austrian Jewish Leader, Arrives Here

January 4, 1940
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Oskar Hirschfeld, former secretary-general of the Union of Austrian Jews and former editor-in-chief of the Vienna Jewish weekly Die Wahrheit, arrived here last week from London. He was arrested during the German occupation of Vienna in March, 1938, and held in prison for three months, living in the same cell as the late Prof. Heinrich Neumann and Robert Stricker. Released after Signing an undertaking to leave Austria within four weeks, he and his wife went to England under the guarantee of the British Jewish Refugee Committee and he worked for this committee as a social worker for several months until he emigrated to the United States.

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