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Summary of document - Italics for language printed on form:

From Regional Court on Landstrasse March 17, 1939

Judicial Termination of Residence

Vienna III district

Request made by Marissa Taussik Wien III.

Stamp from 1st district: Kom.-Rat Hans Plank - housing

Power of attorney from 27 February 1939 issued in Vienna.

Party concerned being terminated:

Chaim Cohen, Wien III., Seidlgasse 14

Person to leave rented apartment # 20,21, 14 days to move out, by March 31, 1939

This should happen by 12 noon on the date indicated or can file an objection to the termination.

Reason: Aryan citizens refuse to live under the same roof as Jews. besides, there is an urgent need for homes for Aryan citizens.

Vitali and Helene did not live in the Jewish neighborhood in Vienna. The document tells them they can no longer live with Aryans.

We see that life was already difficult for Vitali (aka Chaim/Haim) and Helene before their children were able to leave for the U.S. later that year. They are no longer welcome in Vienna, so they begin their attempts to leave.

Vitali appealed this order, which we will see next month. According to Vienna city records, he and Helene lived at the Seidlgasse address until June 1942. His Turkish citizenship protected them from the worst of the Nazis until it didn’t.