29 July 1915, Thursday

Vienna. Bruno Schulz receives the last allowance from the Central Agency for Assistance for War Refugees from Galicia and Bukovina.

Presumably on the same day he resigned from further support of the organization. He probably knew that as a person financially dependent on the city, he would not have received the required permit from the Ministry of the Interior for a two-month trip to Marienbad*. The monarchy’s budget was too overburdened. From the beginning of the year to the end of August, the total amount of payments to refugees was 18.1 million krone1. In view of the difficult economic situation, the Vienna authorities were rejecting applications for spa stays. (js) (transl. ms)

  • 1
    Beatrix Hoffmann-Holter, Abreisendmachung. Jüdische Kriegsflüchtlinge in Wien 1914–1923, Wien–Köln–Weimar 1995, p. 49.