The Holocaust:
Letter from Rosa Oppenheim to the Mayor of Bayreuth
(November 1, 1938)
Bayreuth, 1 November 1938
To the Mayor of the city of Bayreuth
Re: Application of the Nuremberg
Laws.
Mrs. Margarete Nuetzel, age 27, Elias Raenzel St. Bayreuth,
was employed in my household until the promulgation
of the Nuremberg Laws.
After that, her mother, Mrs. Ries, aged 45,…came
to work for us for several hours every day. She is
still employed by us.
The members of our household included my husband, Selmar,
myself and our daughter, Paula Oppenheim, until my
husband was arrested several months ago.
My husband was sentenced to a prison term of one year
and three months in late August for attempting to commit
Rassenschande (Race Defilement). He is still detained
and was not yet transferred to a prison because he
submitted an appeal. My husband is therefore not at
our home, and only my daughter and I reside there.
Our help, Mrs. Ries is very often unable to perform
her work. She would like to have her daughter, the
aforementioned Mrs. Nuetzel, replace her when she cannot
come.
I believe the employment of Mrs. Nuetzel in my household
was forbidden because of my husband's presence, as
stated in the laws. I submit the request to permit
the employment of Mrs. Nuetzel for the period until
my husband returns home. I would be grateful for notification
should her employment be possible without official
authorization.
My husband, myself and my daughter are full Jews. There
are no male tenants in our household.
Source: The Central
Archive for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem.
D/Ba 28/329.
Source: Yad
Vashem
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