Word: affidavits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews and forced to leave Vienna very soon. Therefore I appeal in our great trouble to you--an Aryan--and ask you whether you, perhaps through your esteemed parents or another noble-minded personality, would be so good as to provide us with an affidavit." Thus writes Catherine Spiegler, a typical oppressed German Jewess, to Samuel Burrit Lacy, Jr. '41, who claims she is a perfect stranger...
Nowhere in the letter is there any explanation of what the "affidavit" is to be used for. Lacy, who Hyon in Kirkland House and has his home in Buffalo, is, therefore, rather chary of taking any direct action for fear he may become involved in a political whirlpool...
Receive Plea For Affidavit...
While awaiting the Corporation's decision, the Committee continued its organizing activity under Robert E. Lane '39, chairman. A legal expert in Boston has been consulted on the technicalities of securing affidavits. A telegram pleading for an affidavit for a Vienna Kreisler Prize winner, threatened with jail, was received by Ernest M. Jondorf '41, Chairman of the Affidavit Committee, from a Long Island, New York, family...
...forced to emigrate from Germany, I beg to ask you for an Affidavit and hope that you will not refuse my request, but help a young girl, who will be thankful to you her whole life for this noble action...