Affidavit of Support and Sponsorship - Six copies, notarized. Two sponsors required to provide the following: To enter the United States, immigrants needed the following documentation for a US visa: Each country allowed a limited number of immigrants to enter. After a medical exam, applicants were given a numbered visa. When called, paperwork was provided to the consular officer for review. 
In addition, applicants could leave Germany only if they had valid travel arrangements and entrance visas for another countryĪpplicants were given a waiting list number from the consulate.
Certification from a currency exchange office permitting the export of itemized personal and household goods. Documents explaining the necessity of taking goods out of the country. A list, in triplicate, of personal and household goods and their value. Certification that currency regulations had been followedĪn emigrant was permitted to take 2,000 RM or less in currency out of the countryĪny remaining assets would be transferred into blocked bank accountsĬustoms declaration permitting the export of personal and household goods. Certification that no outstanding taxes were due. 
Payment of a 25% capital transfer tax of assets. Submission of a list of gifts given to third parties. Certificate from the Reich Ministry of Finance approving emigration, which required:. To leave the German Reich, immigrants needed the following: (Adapted from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) Requirements for immigration were onerous. It became clear to many Jews under Nazi occupation, that it was imperative that they leave.Īlthough this unprecedented violence against the Germany’s Jews prompted outrage in the United States and around the world, American public opinion reflected the tough economic times, restrictive immigration policy and antisemitism. New anti-Jewish laws and decrees soon followed. After Kristallnacht, the Jewish community was forced to pay one billion Reichmarks to compensate Germany for the property damage. This was the first time Nazi officials unleashed widespread assaults and devastation inflicted on the Jewish community. The violence of Kristallnacht was a dramatic escalation of Nazi anti-Jewish policy, which deprived Jews of their citizenship, their property and businesses and their rights to participate in German economic and cultural life. Thirty thousand Jewish men were rounded up and taken to concentration camps. On that night, shattered glass littered the streets and Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes were vandalized and destroyed. Eighty one years ago, on November 9–10, 1938, Jews in Nazi Germany and its occupied territory were subjected to ruthless destruction and incarceration in what became known as Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.
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