it impossible for the communities to tax their own members. On the other
hand, there has been an increase in the obligations of the Jewish communities
towards the increasing masses of impoverished Jews. Furthermore,
the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost has confiscated not only private Jewish assets,
but also certain assets of the communities. Forced to aid the Jewish masses,
support them, prevent epidemics, etc., the Central Office of Communities
requested the following:
1) that the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost make an advance payment or grant
a loan towards the requisitioned assets of Jewish communities;
2) that sums that are to be paid by Jewish communities’ members from
their income or assets as essential contributions for the benefit of the
Jewish communities be released and paid out from the requisitioned
Jewish assets;
3) that an emigration tribute be paid from refugees’ assets and a fund
be established to cover the general needs of social welfare from that
tribute and the sums re 1) and 2).
The above application was sent to the Berlin Haupttreuhandstelle and
to the Ministry of Internal Affairs together with favourable opinions issued
by the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost in Katowice and the Regierungspräsident of
Katowice, with emphasis placed on the imminent risk of hunger and disease
among the Jews.
ARG I 1016 (Ring. I/5, Ring. I/11, Ring. I/12)
Description:
a) original, typewritten and copied, German, 220×350 mm, 9 sheets, 9 pages
(no. 1), 5 sheets, 5 pages (no. 2). Ring. 1/11 (Bulletin, 2) and Ring. 1/12 (Bulletin, 1).
b) original, typewritten and copied, Polish, Latin., 210×335 mm, damage and
missing fragments, 8 sheets, 8 pages. Attached is Hersh Wasser’s note in Polish:
“1940, Sosnowiec, original. August [s] Ost-Oberschlesien. “Biuletyn Prawniczy”
[Legal Newsletter] No. 1. Given to H. Wasser by Mehrin.”
