STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2612, sig. 109-12/260

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- 3 - 25 Czecho-Slovak state... His day of remembrance does not require us to think of him, but that we do what we can do... Everyone helps everyone, whomever he can help, joyfully, sacrificially and without reservation. With a word fraternally. Where you cannot help with deeds, at least help with words and a friendly look. The more you will receive. This applies above all to your Jewish fellow citizens, who live among you and have to suffer even more ... Any help from them will bring to our own people Ehr e u n d R u h m and benefit once. In this regard, Masaryk was exemplary, i n d e m e r d a s j üdi s ch e Volk defended in his statement against the ritual murder before the slanders.Help and it will be helped you!" + Help, so you will be aided, said Jaroslav Stranský on March 7, 1943, and this was also Masaryks' philosophy of profitability, as he stated in his "World Revolution" with the words: "And especially in America, if I may say so, the Hilsneriade "retired" me. Already in 1917 the Jews in New York had a huge reception for me; this time I have personal meetings with representatives of the Orthodox direction as well as with Zionists. From these I call Mr. Br a n d e i s, member of the Supreme Court, according to his origin from Bohemia." From Bohemia? The various depictions of the Jews of Brandei and his origin in recent years are contradictory. Some say that the ancestors of Brandice came from Germany and emigrated during the revolution of 1848. Some think that he was an East Jew, and others speak more specifically of his family coming from Poland. Masaryk must have known where the great patron of his emigration work came from