The first case of a Jew being arrested in Slovakia for not wearing the yellow Mogen David is reported in the Grenzbote, a German paper published in Bratislavs, which reached here today. The wife of the arrested Jew attempted to commit suicide when she learned that her husband had been jailed, the paper reports.
Emulating the new anti-Jewish Nazi policy in Prague, the authorities in Slovakia similarly embarked this week on a policy of increased anti-Jewish presentations. The income of Jews was fixed by a special order as not to exceed 1,500 kronen a month, while Jews possessing bank accounts were prohibited to withdraw more than 400 kronen weekly from their deposits.
Katherina Backetuber, a Slovak fish dealer, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment and 10,000 kronen fine on the charge that she secretly sold fish to twenty-one Jews. Each of the Jews involved was fined.1,000 kronen and sentenced to one day in jail, the pro-Nazi newspaper Slovak, published in Bratislave, reported today.
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