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1938 Posts from the Past

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The Leo Baeck Institute - New York | Berlin presents the year 1938 through the eyes of Jews, whose personal documents detail their experiences and the hardships they suffered as well as the growing tensions in Europę and diminishing hope for Jews in Germany and Austria.

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Law on Alteration of Family and Personal Names

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“Nonę of us can predict how things will turn out, no one can take offense at our holding on for as long as possible to what we have built together, and whether what we do now or in the near futurę is correct, cannot be judged by any one. Perhaps everything was wrong and too late.”

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On January 5,1938, Kuno Fleischer wrote to the shareholders of his family's paper factory in the smali Baden-Wurttemberg town of Eisingen about a recent business dispute and alluded darkly to a time when “grave decisions will have to be madę swiftly.” He told his fellow owners—his brother and nephews—that he would soon travel to the United States to “orient himself ” adding, “No one of us can predict how things will turn out, and no one can take offense at our holding on for as long as possible to what we have built together.”

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Fleischer-Steiner Family Collection, AR 25083 □

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Page from a ledger book of the Gesellschaft der Freunde in Berlin, 1792 -1793.

The new Law on Alteration of Family and Personal Names regulates the change of names of German citizens and individuals without citizenship who live in the German Reich. The law empowers the Interior Minister to issue rules concerning given names and unilaterally change those names that do not conform to the rules, including names which were changed before the Nazis seizure of power in 1933. This primarily affects assimilated Jews who adopted less apparently Jewish names, which the Nazis viewed as an attempt to camouflage their Jewishness. The new law is the Nazis' first step toward marking Jews by forcing them to adopt typical’ Jewish names.

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