GERMAN JEWS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1938, Page 8

GERMAN JEWS

PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS MEN HOPING TO MAKE NEW START IN AUSTRALIA (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 30. On their way to start life anew in Australia, between 25 and 30 German Jewish professional and business men arrived at Auckland by the Niagara as through passengers to Sydney. The migrants, some of whom have their wives and families with them, comprise doctors, lawyers, university teachers, dentists and commercial men. One, formerly was head of a large manufacturing business in Berlin. Most of them are comparatively young. The doctors and dentists hope to be able to practice their professions in Australia, although medical men recognise that they may find an obstacle in the proposal to refuse registration in New South Wales to foreign doctors until after they have passed the examinations for the last three years of the medical course at Sydney University. Greater difficulties confront lawyers, whose German qualifications are of no use to them in a British country. One of them, a doctor of laws, said photography had long been his hobby and now he hoped- to make a living out of it. This man. explained that Jews leaving Germany were allowed to take with them at the most, 10 per cent of their capital Those for whom 10 per cent was sufficient to pay passage money and satisfy the immigration requirements of a foreign country were regarded as fortunate. Poorer people had little or no prospect of getting out unless aid were sent them. For the same reason people who were too old to make a new start in life were unable to leave.

“Some of us are hopeful that we may do well enough in Australia to bring our fathers and mothers out,” he added, “but that remains to be seen.”