[A.] Austria
[6.3. NS Austria: At least 150,000 1/4, 1/2 and
3/4 Jews etc. - at least 335,246 persons counted
as Jews under NS rule]
[Emigration by IKG - at
least 150,000 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 Jews - 30,000 emigrate by
summer 1939]
Emigration through IKG was slow in starting. From the
first days of Nazi rule a parallel emigration office
operated under the auspices of Frank van
Gheel-Gildemeester, son of a Dutch court chaplain, whose
actual intentions and connections with the Germans have
not quite been cleared up to this day. His main concern
was with the so-called non-Aryans, that is, converted Jews
or descendants of Jews who fell under the definition of a
Jew by Nazi standards. There were at least 150,000 of
these in Austria, and Gildemeester claims that 30,000 had
emigrated by the summer of 1939.
(End note 16: Germany-"G", institutions and organizations)
[By this the number there are 185,246 plus at least
150,000 are at least 335,246 people defined as Jews. For
East European Jews there is no Zentralstelle to
emigrate...].
JDC had to give up its attempt to establish an American
Jew as
Table 16: Persons
Fed in Vienna in 1938
|
Month
|
March
|
May
|
June
|
August
|
September
|
No. fed
|
3,789
|
9,000
|
10,995
|
11,522
|
13,323
|
|
|
|
|
|
Also, 7,000 food packages were
sent to people in their homes.
|
(End note 17: Sources:
-- Fortnightly Digest, 24/25 and
-- R28, 1938 report.
The relief
problem in Austria had some troublesome
implications. In "old" Germany the government
was at that time still supporting Jewish
relief to the extent of about 600,000-700,000
marks monthly. In Austria, JDC and other
foreign organizations were expected to foot
the bill. If they did, the Germans might
demand that they do it in Germany as well; if
they did not, the Jewish poor would starve and
be deported to concentration camps as "asocial
elements". The upshot, of course, was that JDC
paid).
|
(p.228)
its representative in Vienna. Apart from other
considerations, the U.S. government was disinclined to
sanction such a move.
