Object numberM1996/023:002
Description
Working list of General Commissary
No. 2 of l.XI-1941
ORDER No. l
1. Jewish population is forbidden to walk on pavement. Jews must keep to the right of the road and follow each other.
2. Jewish population is forbidden to use leisure walks and all public gardens. They are also forbidden to sit on benches.
3. Jewish population is not allowed to use public means of communication, e.g. taxi, horse-drawn buses, passenger boats and similar forms of transport. Owners of all public transport must display clearly a notice with the inscription "Prohibited for Jews"
4. Those who break this order will be severely punished.
5. This order takes effect from today.
City Commissary
signed - Kramer SA - oberfurer
Kaunas, 28th of July 1941.
Archival material and document from the Russian Government archives related to the Genocide of the Jewish people there. Copies, in Russian with English translations attached. Originals are in the Moscow archives. Includes notices of restrictions and laws placed against the Jewish people. Documents include testimonies of Nazi brutality, material presented at Nuremberg trial and photographs
Working list of General Commissary
No. 2 of l.XI-1941
ORDER No. l
1. Jewish population is forbidden to walk on pavement. Jews must keep to the right of the road and follow each other.
2. Jewish population is forbidden to use leisure walks and all public gardens. They are also forbidden to sit on benches.
3. Jewish population is not allowed to use public means of communication, e.g. taxi, horse-drawn buses, passenger boats and similar forms of transport. Owners of all public transport must display clearly a notice with the inscription "Prohibited for Jews"
4. Those who break this order will be severely punished.
5. This order takes effect from today.
City Commissary
signed - Kramer SA - oberfurer
Kaunas, 28th of July 1941.
Archival material and document from the Russian Government archives related to the Genocide of the Jewish people there. Copies, in Russian with English translations attached. Originals are in the Moscow archives. Includes notices of restrictions and laws placed against the Jewish people. Documents include testimonies of Nazi brutality, material presented at Nuremberg trial and photographs
Production placeKovno, Lithuania
Production date 1941-07-28 - 1941-07-28
Subjectpersecution, Nuremberg Trials, Nazism
Language
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by the Russian Government Archival Service