Dr. L. Tietz Dead at 37, Leader in Social Work Among German

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Dr. L. Tietz Dead at 37, Leader in Social Work Among German

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Dr. L. Tietz Dead at 37, Leader in Social Work Among German Jews
by Jewish Telegraphic Agency
November 6, 1933
Berlin (Nov. 4)

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Dr. Ludwig Tietz, brilliant young leader of German Jewry who has been in the forefront in all efforts of German Jews in their own behalf since the Hitler regime began a drive on Jews in the Reich, died here suddenly this morning at the age of 37. Death was due to a hemorrhage. Dr. Tietz was a member of the executive board of the Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith and was executive director of the Central Committee of German Jews for Relief and Rehabilitation, the organization formed to put German Jewish relief work on a nation-wide, coordinated basis and to supervise the work within the country.

Although he was a well-known medical specialist, Dr. Tietz had practically given up his profession to devote himself entirely to Jewish social work without remuneration. After the Hitler revolution, he became one of the most popular Jewish figures in Germany and was highly esteemed by British and American leaders in relief activities who had come into close contact with him.

Dr. Tietz was one of the twenty Jewish leaders attending the conference to plan relief measures for destitute German Jews in Berlin on June 20 who were arrested by Nazi storm troopers and mishandled by them. Political police secured the release of all the men but only after some of them had been painfully injured.

Dr. Tietz had been particularly elated a few hours before his death by his success in having won from the Nazi government yesterday some measure of recognition for the Jewish Youth Association of which he was president.
His death came as a severe shock to the Jews in Germany.
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Re: Dr. L. Tietz Dead at 37, Leader in Social Work Among Ger

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Proclamation by the Central Committee of German Jews for Relief and Reconstruction
C.V.-Zeitung No. 17
April 27, 1933

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Our Duty!

...There is great distress in German Jewry. We German Jews bore our share in the general distress in Germany. We contributed our contingent to the great army of people who were without work and without income, and seemed to be excluded from meaningful life. New distress has overtaken us. Jewish people are torn away from their work; the sense and basis of their lives has been destroyed.

The purpose of a community reveals itself in times of trouble. When the individual can no longer see any sense in his existence, when he is alone, the community can direct him to a purpose and an aim; when he alone can no longer do anything, then the community must show its strength. In times of distress the community must grow anew, gain life and existence. It is from the community that the individual must draw the strength to live and be active.

The task of the community of the German Jews is great today. Need stands at the doors of our people, and their strength threatens to break. It is only from us, from the strength of the community, that relief can come.

We are faced with new tasks of unknown magnitude. It is not enough to give bread to those who do not know how they are to survive the next few days. Of course it is our first task to make sure that none of our people goes hungry or lacks a roof over his head. Of course we must make sure that the institutions remain that we have built for our children, for our old and our sick, as we have done in the past. They are more necessary than ever today, even though difficulties may force us to reduce considerably the demands we have made in the past concerning facilities in these institutions. But all that is not enough. We will not, and may not, consider that we have done enough if we offer charity to our brothers and sisters and provide for their simplest needs. Our duty is to help them to find a new basis for their existence, work with which they may make a living, which gives them once more a task and sense to their lives! It would of course be pointless if our people were to rush into various occupations that appeal to them in some way, without much thought. It will be the task of those responsible to investigate carefully where there is room and opportunity for the work of Jewish people, and then to offer them the opportunity to prepare themselves for this work.

Great demands will be made on the ability of our people to readjust, to find their way into new kinds of work and new circumstances. But much must also be demanded of the willingness to make sacrifices of those who are saved the need to change their lives. Those who are lucky enough to have work and an income must help those who have lost everything. Anyone who is still able to give must sacrifice the maximum! The greatest possible demands must be made on everybody! Whoever evades this duty is an enemy of the community. Every sacrifice must be made, every sacrifice in aid for those who are now in need, but also every sacrifice in contribution to our communities, on whom innumerable persons now depend. Shame on those whose lack of willingness for sacrifice, whose criminal evasion of taxes forces our communities to dismiss officials or employees! We must not be the cause of making one of our own people lose his job or his bread!

The tasks that await us can only be carried out in unity and cooperation. All our differences of opinion, everything that divides us, must be put aside. The major organizations and social institutions of German Jewry have made the first move in this direction. They have united for joint effort in the Central Committee of the German Jews for Relief and Reconstruction. All special interests and personal wishes are silent there. The people who work together there labor only with one great common aim before them: The Aid organization of the German Jews!

This central organization will see to it that everything is done that must be done. It will see to it that there will be neither duplication nor competition but joint effort. The various organizations and offices will place their financial means at the disposal of the central organization...German Jews, show that you are able to rise to the magnitude of your task! Do not imagine that the problems of German Jewry can be solved without the greatest of sacrifices, by means of undirected emigration. There is no honor in leaving Germany in order to live untroubled on your income abroad, free of the fate of your brothers in Germany. It will not help anybody to go abroad aimlessly, with no prospect of making a living, but only increase the numbers there who are without work and means. Every prospect will be examined, every possibility exploited to help those who no longer have a prospect of earning a living in the German Fatherland to find some means of settling abroad! But don't leave Germany senselessly! Do your duty here ! Don't push people off blindly to an uncertain fate.

Let nobody fail in his duty in this hour of trial! Let everybody contribute according to his ability, and in his own place, to the task of helping others! The hour of German Jewry has arrived, the hour of responsibility, the hour of trial. Let German Jewry prove itself capable of facing this hour.

Source: C.V.-Zeitung, No. 17, April 27, 1933.

* Zentralausschuss der deutschen Juden fuer Hilfe und Aufbau.
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Re: Dr. L. Tietz Dead at 37, Leader in Social Work Among Ger

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Central Committee of German Jews for Help and Reconstruction
by SHOAH Resource Center

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(Zentralausschuss der Deutschen Juden fuer Hilfe und Aufbau), center that coordinated economic and social assistance for German Jews from 1933 to 1938. The committee was created in April 1933, just three months after Hitler rose to national power, as a collaboration of various German Jewish communal, political, and social-welfare organizations. Its goal was to take care of those Jews who had lost their jobs or businesses as a result of the Nazis' anti-Jewish legislation. In addition, Jewish welfare organizations outside of Germany had requested the creation of such a committee to deal with all the monies being donated to help German Jewry.

At first, the committee concentrated on providing job training for those Jews who needed to find new professions, as they did not yet see emigration as the necessary solution to their problems. In April 1934 the committee was incorporated into the Reich Representation of German Jews. At that point, the committee became even more efficient in its welfare activities, and took responsibility for the Reich Representation's finances. In that capacity, the committee consolidated all the aid funds donated by Jewish organizations abroad, such as the Joint Distribution Committee and the Central British Fund, and continued to collect donations from German Jews.
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