Respected Commissioner of Police,
The present writer, L.J. Crielaars, dance teacher, district administrator of the union of dance teachers, registered with the Dutch Kultuurkamer, politely requests that you inform yourself about the following. In a letter from the Procurator General of the Court of Justice in Den Bosch dated October 28th 1941 I was informed as district administrator that dance teacher Rosie Glaser is no longer permitted to teach dance on the basis of the fact that she has two Jewish forbears. As a result of the aforementioned measure, R. Glaser has been forced to stop working and return already paid tuition fees to her students. Now the German authorities have forced us also to partially stop our dance teaching activities and my students, and those of other district members, are likewise asking for their money back. We have explained to our students that our activities have stopped for reasons entirely different to those related to R. Glaser. They do not believe us, however, because the said R. Glaser appears here in public without wearing a “Star of David”, and both measures were implemented more or less simultaneously. Personally, I am almost certain that she has two Jewish grandparents. I would like to ask you how many Jewish grandparents constitute an impediment to having a license to teach dance and how many Jewish grandparents must a person have for them to be obliged to wear a Jewish star?
Sincerely,
L.J.Crielaars
The recipient of the letter made on the letter the following note: ‘has nothing to do with Crielaars. Check nevertheless if she is required to wear a ‘star’.’ The letter was clearly successful.
