Following its decision to expel all Jews from the two Jewish-populated Hungarian towns of Munkaez and Ungvar, the Nazi-controlled Hungarian Government today announced that the entire Jewish population of the city of Kosice, will also be expelled. Jews have been living in Kosice for generations.
At the same time, the Budapest radio today also broadcast the text of new decrees under which Jews in Hungary will be forbidden to buy textile goods and to possess firearms and munitions. All such articles are to be surrendered within eight days.
The official gazette today published a decree, broadcast over Hungarian radio stations, making legal the requisitioning of Jewish apartments in Hungary and the segregation of Jews in “compulsory residences.” The decree also provides for the ejection of non-Jews who moved into houses of Jews deported or sent to concentration camps. This provision is apparently aimed at preventing friendly non-Jews from taking over the homes and the property of their Jewish friends and taking care of them until the liberation of Hungary.
A new census of the Jewish population has been ordered for May 1. The order, published in the official gazette, requires each Jews to submit to local authorities all personal data about himself and the members of his family.
Meanwhile, the Jewish Council in Budapest, which acts as a central Jewish body representing Jewish interests before the government, received an order to publish a notice on the front page of its publication, “Magyar Zsido Klapja,” instructing all persons who are considered Jews under the new anti-Jewish laws, to register immediately for labor service in war industries. Those who do not register within 48 hours will be punished and will be forcibly conscripted.
Hungarian newspapers reaching here today carry lists of Jews fined from 100 to 4,000 pengoes for not wearing a yellow star. The papers reveal that non-Jews in Budapest are making a point of strolling in the streets with Jews who wear the yellow hadge, to demonstrate publicly their sympathy for the Jews.
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