In re German Jewish Children’s Aid, Inc.
New York Supreme Court
272 N.Y.S. 540 (1934)
- Written by Sharon Feldman, JD
Facts
Jewish children in Germany were being socially ostracized and deprived of equal educational opportunity because of the national socialist world view dominating Germany that non-Aryans such as Jews were racially inferior and should be eliminated. In a symposium about Nazism, the well-known non-Jewish observer Dorothy Thompson noted that the persecution of the Jews in Germany was directed not at obtaining their submission, as persecution of other groups was, but at forcing them to leave Germany by ostracizing them and eliminating their opportunities to earn a living and educate their children. In a published address delivered in London, author Stefan Zweig, who had been a victim of Nazi racism, stated that the children who were growing up in Germany would become bitter and infected by hatred and it was therefore essential that as many Jewish children as possible grow up in friendlier nations that provided an outlet for children’s natural capacity for affection and granted religious liberty of every form to all races. A coalition of organizations (plaintiff) applied for a certificate for incorporation of German Jewish Children’s Aid, Incorporated, an organization with the purely charitable purpose of facilitating the entry of German Jewish children into the United States.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Levy, J.)
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