Port Elizabeth Document

Identifier
990004839570304146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1935 - 31 Dec 1935
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Scope and Content

The file contains several transcriptions of newspapers, typed reports and a correnspondence regarding the anti-Semitic trial in South Africa in 1935. In the transcripts of 'Der Judenkenner' from 29th of September 1935 it is written that aryans (Greyshirts) stole a document from a Synagoge in Port Elizabeth and as 'the world new already, becuase of the Bern trial, of the power of the Jews' the 'Judenkenner' ask the reader to read in between the lines, when the press is reporting that the thieves of the document where catched and put in prison, furthermore the 'stolen documents' was declared as a forgery. The South African anti-Semitic trial took place because of damages for alleged defamation, arising out of the publication of That document, said to be stolen from the synagogue, which was alleged to show the existence of a Jewish world plot. The reader of the 'Judenkenner' have been ask to read this documents and think carefully if it could not be true at the end. In future edition the 'Judenkenner' would print and refer to this document. Other anti-Semitic transcripts can be read in the 'Judenkenner'. Also information regadring the 'Grauhemden', a national socialistic movement to free the country and the people from Jewish exploitations are attached. Further correspondences regarding the anti-Semitic trial and the use of the alleged real document can be seen.

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Note(s)

  • Electronic access only

  • Typed reports, transcripts and handwritten notes

  • Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015

  • Title viewed 10.5.2018

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