[Situation of Jews in Galicia]

The file contains three reports about the situation of Jews in Galicia. The report is based on the narration of a witness. It discribes the situation of Jews in Eastern Galicia from the beginning of the occupation by the Soviet Union on the 17th of September 1939 till December 1939. When the Red Army invated Poland the Jews were impute to welcome the invasion. But infact they saw the invasion by the Soviet Union as the lesser evil, as beeing occupied by the Nazis. But as the report shows, the Jewish population in Eastern Galicia had to suffer under the the new communist regime. Not just antisemitism was a problem, but also the new structure which came along. When the coordination between Eastern Galicia and the Soviet Union started, a lot of Jews lost their property and their work, as traiding and industry was not privat anymore. Furthermore the Jewish question was a big topic, the new government tried to take every right from the Jews, so that the Jewish question would disappear during time. Among others Jewish people went broke and a lot of them became refugees. From the 21st of Dezember 1939 the Polish Zloty lost it's validity, this was caused by the confiscation of millions and millions of Zloty. As a result a new order was announced, that all the property of Jews had to be handled over to the Russian government.