Letter Regarding a Jew's Tailor Shop, Which Was Seized and Given to a German

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.369

Object Name

Letter

Date

6-1-1938

Files

Description

Typewritten letter on tan paper. Addressed to Joseph Bürckel and signed by Franz Hirsch.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: One of two letters regarding a Jew's tailor shop (2012.1.369, 2012.1.370). This letter was a T.L.S. sent by one Franz Hirsch to future gauleiter of Vienna Joseph Burckel, then Reichskommissar for the union of Austria with the German Reich. Hirsch notes: "... Because I plan to open a tailors supply store and to break the monopoly of the Jews in this type of business, I would like to ask you to support me in this venture... In my district, I am viewed as an illegal National Socialist but despite all my efforts I was not able to find a suitable location based on my national views... I was in the military from 1913 to 1919... One year as a P.O.W. in Italy... Since 1921 I have been a master tailor and have had only one room which I must also use as an apartment..." On April 19, 1938 Austria had officially become part of the German Reich: Presumably Mr. Hirsch got his store.

Dimensions

11 3/4 x 8 1/4"

Keywords

tailor shop, Stamp, Vienna, Franz Hirsch, Joseph Burckel

Subcollection

Aryanization

Recommended Citation

"Letter Regarding a Jew's Tailor Shop, Which Was Seized and Given to a German" (1938). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.369.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1057