Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76573
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Typed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Date
- January 24, 1939
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : Paper : Typed : Ink : Beige, Black ; Ht: 29,5 cm x W: 20,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- January 24, 1939
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- 1 page, single-sided. Document is a typed letter from the mayor of Bayreuth, Germany to Dr. Linhart, the regional economic advisor for the NSDAP, requesting his opinion on 'the right of disposal of a Jewish fortune'. Letter outlines a case of Aryanization in which a local department store with a Jewish owner was transferred into 'Aryan' hands. The mayor is declaring that he is withdrawing money from a frozen bank account on a case by case basis, to pay overdue sales taxes and for the Jewish family that formerly owned the department store. Signed 'Heil Hitler!'
- Accession No.
- 2014X.14.03
- Name Access
- MHMC, Found in collection
- Places
- Bayreuth, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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