Statement no. 1 . B

Jindřich Goldstein:

On anti-Semitic statements heard in the Offices of the Liberated Pol.Prisoners in Prague XIX.

September 3rd, 1945

Statement

Written with Jindřich Goldstein, born 3. 7. 1921, Czechoslovak citizen, residing in Prague XIX., Zelená 7, former prisoner of the Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Tauche near Leipzig concentration camps

Jindřich Goldstein stopped by our office today and made the following statement:

This morning, I was in the offices of the Liberated Political Prisoners in Prague XIX., where I had stopped by to get a stamp for my request for the allocation of an apartment. Two women were sitting in the office, and so I had to wait. I unwittingly overheard a conversation between two female clerks and one man, in which they called Jews an unproductive element, like profiteers, living off of and abusing benefits twice as often as other political prisoners, because they also receive benefits from their religious community and if there were any other organizations, then they would try and receive benefits from these as well. Only a few returned, but I don’t pity them in the least. In the concentration camps, all they did was receive rations. They have an aversion to work, for you can’t see any of them sweeping the streets, they keep speaking German and when one of them opens his mouth, you can tell immediately that he can’t speak Czech. And then another female clerk added: of course, there are exceptions, but these are only so-called white ravens.

Prague, on September 3rd, 1945

Signature:

Jindřich Goldstein

Statement accepted by:

Marta Kratková

Berta Gerzonová

Signature of witnesses:

On behalf of the Documentation Campaign: V. Scheck

Documentation Campaign

On behalf of the archive:

Alex Schmiedt