36 officers, 2054 men

Persons of mixed blood of the first degree married to persons of German blood if their marriage has resulted in children (persons of mixed blood of the second degree). Suc

In a speech delivered to the foremen of work units in June 1943, Gens made his policy of “survival through labour” quite clear: “While working for ghetto industry or for the kommandos outside the ghetto, we have, contrary to the trite opinion that we are poor workers, shown that we are very useful and irreplaceable. Under present war conditions, work in general and work for the Wehrmacht in particular is the command of the hour… It is urgent that we make changes to increase the output of the workers and thus enhance the justification for our existence.” Only the young and healthy were considered to be of value; the elderly, the sick and the unskilled were, of necessity, considered expendable. So far as it was achievable, women and children would be spared, since they formed the biological nucleus of the community, but otherwise it was a question of negotiating with the Germans in order to attempt to restrict the number of victims to the minimum possible

To these ends, the Vilna ghetto fighters blew up a German military train, smuggled in arms, sabotaged German military equipment, set up an illegal printing press outside of the ghetto, and established ties to the Soviet resistance in the city and the forests. They also sent emissaries to the Warsaw and Bialystok ghettos to warn the inhabitants about the mass killings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union and to incite resistance.

For the seizing of the foreign values a similar organization would have to be provided for in the State treaties which are to be concluded with the individual European countries about the regulation of the Jewish question.

__________________________________________________________________________ Shoah Resource Center, The International School for Holocaust Studies3/2with which they may make a living, which gives them once more a task and sense to their lives!

1) Jews are forbidden to fly the Reich or National flag or to display the Reich colors. They are, on the other hand, permitted to display the Jewish colors. The exercise of this right is protected by the State.

Jews may not employ in their households female subjects of the state of German or related blood who are under 45 years old.

Extramarital intercourse between Jews and subjects of the state of German or related blood is forbidden.

1) Marriages between Jews and subjects of the state of German or related blood are forbidden. Marriages nevertheless concluded are invalid, even if concluded abroad to circumvent this law.

Section 1 does not apply to civil servants who were already employed on August 1, 1914, or who fought during the World War at the front for the German Reich or who fought for its allies or whose fathers or sons were killed in the World War. With the agreement of the appropriate special minister or of the highest authorities of the federal states, the Reich Minister of the Interior can permit further exceptions in the case of officials who are abroad.

One grandparent shall be considered as full-blooded if he or she belonged to the Jewish religious community.

The Reichstag passed the so-called Nuremberg Laws (or “Nuremberg Racial Laws”) on September 15,1935, during the Seventh Reich Party Rally of the NSDAP in Nuremberg. Henceforth, these laws formed the basis of the Nazi persecution of the Jews. The “Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor” (“Blood Protection Law”) aimed to isolate the Jews racially and socially by prohibiting them, under pain of severe punishment, from marrying or having sexual relations with non-Jews.

The aim of our work is the co-operation of all those who take part, actively or passively, in Jewish cultural life, both artists and audience, and this can be achieved only if all Jewish organizations play their part. Every individual is jointly responsible and will decide with us on the success of our work.

We have received authority from the State Commissioner for the independent organization of artistic and creative work.