Unconfirmed Acts

The following are Acts that are missing either a full date and/or an Official source.

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1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Prague
3. Geography of Act
Czech Republic
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “… the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia ordered the establishment of a central office for Jewish emigration.” “Nazi Restrictions on the Jews of Prague & The Role of the Jewish Community Council,” Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, Accessed 8/27/2015

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Order issued by President of German Lottery
3. Geography of Act
Germany
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “1939 August 1 The President of the German Lottery forbids the sale of lottery tickets to Jews.” “Part II: Selected Documents Showing Key Legal Mechanisms used to Implement the Nazi Agenda.” ushmm.org

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Warsaw
3. Geography of Act
Poland
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “Jews may not use Polish porters and may not own telephones.”

“The Warsaw Ghetto: Anti-Semitic Decrees Against the Jews of Warsaw;” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise; jewishvirtuallibrary.org

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Decree issued by Reich in Occupied Poland
3. Geography of Act
Germany / Occupied
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources:

1) “By a decree of 17 September 1939 the property of all Polish citizens became subject to confiscation, while the property of Jews was automatically confiscated.”
“The German Occupation of Europe.” holocaustresearchproject.org

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
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7. Year of Research
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8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Prague
3. Geography of Act
Czech Republic
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “By the order dealing with the dismissal of Jewish employees it is declared that contracts of employment containing a period of notice are changed to six weeks from the first of any month. All rights to claims for entitlement to pensions, compensations, severance, are extinguished. A once-only severance pay of a maximum of half a year’s salary can be paid.” “Nazi Restrictions on the Jews of Prague & The Role of the Jewish Community Council,” Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, Accessed 8/27/2015

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None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Prague
3. Geography of Act
Czech Republic
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “By the order of the government of 23.06.1939 the regulation concerning an emigration tax was passed. The emigration tax is 25% of the net worth of property.” “Nazi Restrictions on the Jews of Prague & The Role of the Jewish Community Council,” Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, Accessed 8/27/2015

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Warsaw
3. Geography of Act
Poland
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “All Jews must declare all the property in their possession or ownership.” “The Warsaw Ghetto: Anti-Semitic Decrees Against the Jews of Warsaw;” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise; jewishvirtuallibrary.org

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Prague
3. Geography of Act
Czech Republic
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources:

1) “The chief of the civil administration in Brunn / Brno prohibited the disposal of Jewish enterprises in Moravia.”
“Nazi Restrictions on the Jews of Prague & The Role of the Jewish Community Council,” Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, Accessed 8/27/2015

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Prague
3. Geography of Act
Czech Republic
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources:

1) “Ditto the sale, lease or gift of Jewish real property.”
“Nazi Restrictions on the Jews of Prague & The Role of the Jewish Community Council,” Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, Accessed 8/27/2015

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Prague
3. Geography of Act
Czech Republic
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources:

1) “Jews had their radios confiscated.”
“Nazi Restrictions on the Jews of Prague & The Role of the Jewish Community Council,” Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, Accessed 8/27/2015

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Prague
3. Geography of Act
Czech Republic
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources:

1) “Jews permitted to visit catering establishments only if rooms are provided which are exclusively for Jews.”
“Nazi Restrictions on the Jews of Prague & The Role of the Jewish Community Council,” Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, Accessed 8/27/2015

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
“Act IV of 1939” issued by Hungarian government
3. Geography of Act
Hungary
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “Act IV of 1939, the second Jewish law, was detailed and draconian, and I only summarize it here. First, it revived a racial definition of Jewishness, though with some narrow provision for some Christian converts. Second, it lowered the maximum representation in the professions from 20 percent (in the first Jewish law) to 6 percent, the estimated Jewish proportion in the population. Third, it expanded the number of sectors where discrimination was legalized, which now included, among others, land holding, licenses for trade, and salaries. Fourth, unlike previous legislation, it introduced outright exclusions. Jews whose families had immigrated to Hungary after 1867 no longer had the right to vote or serve in parliament. Jews could no longer serve in the upper house of parliament unless it was as one of the designated representatives of the Jewish community. They could no longer serve as editors, publishers or directors, except for exclusively Jewish publications. Finally, the law added provisions for the protection of ‘national’ property in anticipation of Jewish emigration.” Wittenberg, Jason: “International Influences on anti-Jewish Legislation in Interwar Hungary.” witty.berkeley.edu/Hungary; p. 8.

2) “A year later [1939], a more far-reaching anti-Jewish law was passed, defining the status of Jews, barring them from leading positions in the media, prohibiting the issuance of new trade licenses to them or the renewal of old ones. The law also barred further admission of Jews to the professions until their share fell to below 6 percent. It authorized the government to expropriate, with compensation, Jewish landed property. Jews could no longer acquire Hungarian citizenship by naturalization, marriage, or adoption. Voting rights of nonnative Jews or those whose forebears were not permanently resident before 1868 were canceled.”Dawidowicz, Lucy S.: “The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945.” (1975) Online book; p. 462
3) “…a person is to be regarded as Jewish, If he or she, or at least one of the parents, or at least two of the grandparents were members of the Israelite denomination before the coming into force of the present Law.”Molnar, Judit: “Gendarmes, Policemen, Functionaries and the Jews-New Findings on the Behavior of Hungarian Authorities During the Holocaust.” jewishvirtuallibrary.com

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Warsaw
3. Geography of Act
Poland
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “Jews may not deal in textiles or processed leathers.”

“The Warsaw Ghetto: Anti-Semitic Decrees Against the Jews of Warsaw,” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, Jewish Virtual Library, Accessed 8/27/2015

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Warsaw
3. Geography of Act
Poland
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “Jews may not own radios or enter movie theaters. Jewish teachers may not teach in Polish schools.” “The Warsaw Ghetto: Anti-Semitic Decrees Against the Jews of Warsaw;” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise; jewishvirtuallibrary.org

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Prague
3. Geography of Act
Czech Republic
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “Long list of public amenities, parks, restaurants, museums, closed to Jews. Proprietors to put up signs ‘Entry forbidden to Jews’. The owners of public baths were ordered to have compartments set aside specifically for persons of Jewish descent and to signpost them as such. If that was not possible users of Jewish descent were to be segregated in time from users of non-Jewish descent. Bathing and lingering in state swimming pools is forbidden to Jews. Signs to be put up with The words ‘Entry forbidden to Jews’. Jewish proprietors of guest houses, wine bars, coffee houses, etc. are to display the sign ‘Jewish enterprise’.” “Nazi Restrictions on the Jews of Prague & The Role of the Jewish Community Council,” Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, Accessed 8/27/2015

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
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7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
Nov. 24, 1939
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
“Visa Restrictions for Jews” issued by General Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo
3. Geography of Act
Bolivia
4. Text of Act

“1) It is prohibited […] for national consuls to provide passports and tourist visas to Semitic elements.”

5. Source
Global Jewish Advocacy: Anti-Semitism: An Assault on Human Rights; Accessed online
6. Researcher
Ziba Shadjaani
7. Year of Research
2016
8. Notes
Researcher
A copy of the same decree was posted in the Bolivian Consulate in Buenos Aires
1. Full Date of Act
1940
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
“Professional Limits on Jews”
3. Geography of Act
Norway
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “German authorities forbid Norwegian Jews to teach and participate in other professions.” “The Holocaust: Timeline of Jewish Persecution (1932 – 1945);” jewishvirtuallibrary.org

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1940
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Prague
3. Geography of Act
Czech Republic
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources:

1) “Jews forbidden to enter any of Prague’s public parks and gardens.”
“Nazi Restrictions on the Jews of Prague & The Role of the Jewish Community Council,” Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, Accessed 8/27/2015

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1940
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Warsaw
3. Geography of Act
Poland
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “Jewish peddlers and merchants may not purchase goods in neighboring villages.” “The Warsaw Ghetto: Anti-Semitic Decrees Against the Jews of Warsaw;” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise; jewishvirtuallibrary.org

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1940
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
“Establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto”
3. Geography of Act
Poland
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “Nazi’s order the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto.” “The Holocaust: Timeline of Jewish Persecution (1932 – 1945);” jewishvirtuallibrary.org

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1940
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Regulation for the Execution of the 5th Act of the Reich Citizenship Law
3. Geography of Act
Germany
4. Text of Act
None
5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1940
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Prague
3. Geography of Act
Czech Republic
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources:

1) “Jews permitted to shop only during 11:00 to 13:00 and 15:00 to 16:30hrs. This ‘shopping period’ is to be notified to shops.”
“Nazi Restrictions on the Jews of Prague & The Role of the Jewish Community Council,” Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, Accessed 8/27/2015

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1940
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Law issued by Government General of Poland
3. Geography of Act
Germany / Occupied
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “Later, in October, 1940, the Jews in Poland were compelled to live in ghettos, leaving the ghetto without permission being punishable by death.” The administration of Jewish affairs in the ghettos was entrusted to Jewish councils, which are responsible to the German authorities for the carrying out of demands made by the latter upon the Jewish population.” Lemkin, Raphael: “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress.” p. 71

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
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7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1940
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
Warsaw
3. Geography of Act
Poland
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “Jews may not buy a German book.” “The Warsaw Ghetto: Anti-Semitic Decrees Against the Jews of Warsaw;” American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise; jewishvirtuallibrary.org

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
None
1. Full Date of Act
1940
2. Name of Act (or Short Description)
“Ban on Issuance of Exit Visas to Jews”
3. Geography of Act
Poland
4. Text of Act

Commentary from other sources: 1) “A German directive issued from Krakow, Poland, prohibits issuance of exit visas to Polish Jews.” “The Holocaust: Timeline of Jewish Persecution (1932 – 1945);” jewishvirtuallibrary.org

5. Source
None
6. Researcher
None
7. Year of Research
None
8. Notes
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