Hana’s Suitcase
Restrictions
1939
- Jews are banned from practising law
- Jews are banned from working in public institutions
- Jewish doctors are banned from working at all health facilities
- Jews are banned from public and café rooms
- Jews are banned from swimming pools and sportsgrounds
- Jews are banned from German universities
- Jews are ordered to immediately hand in radio sets
- Jews are placed under 8 PM curfew
- Jews may be dismissed from their jobs without reason
- Jews are expelled from all associations/clubs
1940
- Jews are obligated to declare the value of their assets
- Jews are banned from theatres and cinemas
- Identity cards of Jews are marked with the letter “J”
- Anyone to whom the Nuremberg Laws apply is obligated to register with the Nazis
- Jews are banned from entering all public parks and gardens in Prague
- Jews are allowed to board only the rear carriage of trams
- Jews are banned from breeding pigeons/li>
- Jews are banned from travelling on steamboats
- shopping hours for Jews are restricted: 11 AM –1 PM and 3 PM–4:30 PM
- Jewish children are banned from attending schools
- Jewish apartments are confiscated and reallocated to Germans
- Prague Jews may no longer obtain clothing ration cards
- All Jewish bank accounts are frozen
1940
- Jews are banned from German streets in the centre of Prague
- All telephones are confiscated from Jews
- Apple rations are taken from Jews
- Jews are ordered to hand in their driving licences
- Jews are banned from fishing
- Jews may no longer obtain sugar rations
- Retroactive ban on marriage between Jews and Reich nationals
- Jews are banned from all woods and forests
- Jews are forbidden to leave their district without permission
- All Jews over 6 are forced to wear the yellow Star of David
- Jews are banned from public libraries
- Music by Jewish composers may not be broadcast or performed
- Jews are forbidden to smoke tobacco
- Jews may no longer obtain shaving soap
- it is forbidden to provide Jews with fruit or candy
- it is forbidden to sell or give Jews marmalade or jam
- it is forbidden to sell or give Jews fish, poultry or game
- Jews lose their entitlement to sick pay, holiday pay and overtime
- Jews may only be employed in groups
- Jews may no longer obtain onions
- total ban on Jews using trolleybuses