This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless. Lieberman, who had been forcibly introduced into a brothel on her arrival in Argentina in and kept as a prostitute for about four years, had made up her mind to leave that profession as soon as possible.
It was in her store on Callao Avenue number where she met Korn, who—unbeknowst to her—was a leading trafficker in women in Buenos Aires.
They started an intimate relationship, and though Lieberman confided her past history to Korn, the latter promised to marry her in a civil ceremony. Korn opted to have a religious ceremony instead, waiving the civil document required by Argentine law. The subsequent investigation by the police led to the discovery that Korn was exploiting other prostitutes.
Depositions against Korn brought to light the activities of a net of Jewish white slave dealers. These activities were widely known, but the traffickers had managed to secure impunity by bribing key officials.
Now, for the first time in almost half a century, the attempts to denounce and effectively destroy the well-knit organization of Jewish traffickers met with at least partial success. This scourge of the Jews of Buenos Aires was not removed immediately. Nevertheless, as we shall see, the derivations of the Lieberman-versus-Korn case, together with the political and social changes in Argentine society during the early s, proved to be a mortal blow to Jewish white slavery in the country.
