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30,000 Jews in Hungary Converted in 20 Years

December 6, 1939
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Official statistics published here today revealed that 30,774 Jews in Hungary have been converted to other religions in the last 20 years, while 4,211 non-Jews have embraced Judaism in the same period. Most of the Jewish conversions were recorded between the years 1934 and 1938, under the influence of the anti-Jewish laws in Nazi Germany.

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