Holders of the so-called Nansen passports, issued through the International Office for Refugees at Geneva, which is an affiliate of the League of Nations, are becoming the greatest sufferers in the German-Jewish crisis, it was made evident here today. These international passports are of no avail to Jewish residents in Germany, who, when expelled, have nowhere to turn.
A representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports having personally inspected a notice served to one such “man without a country,” ordering him to leave Germany within twenty days, delay being subject to a fine of 130 marks, while protracted delay would result in his being interned in a concentration camp.
Many Breslau Jews are affected by this measure, as a large part of the Jewish population came into Germany from Galicia due to war-time pressure and many of these refugees did not subsequently succeed in getting Polish passports. The Berlin advocate for the League of Nations, Volkovsky, declared that although he might be able to help non-Jewish refugees, “it would be hopeless to attempt to intervene with the authorities in, regard to Jews.”
The Community organization succeeded in securing some visas from the Portuguese government for these aliens, but these are insufficient, and though it is rumored that a special League Commission will be appointed to settle their problem, thus far nothing has materialized.
The possibility of sending a number of German-Jewish doctors to India is being investigated by Jewish medical organizations abroad. Meanwhile the world-famous cancer research specialist, Dr. Ferdinand Blumenthal of Berlin, has submitted his resignation from the directorship of the Berlin Cancer Institute to the Minister of Education.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
