Some 30,000 Rumanian Jews repatriated from areas ceded to the Soviet Union will be forced to live on displaced persons status unless Rumania revises its present citizenship laws to include them, it was learned here today.
During the last 18 months, over 40, 000 Jews, formerly residents of Bessarabia and Bukovina, were repatriated after renouncing Russian citizenship. Although the Jews expected to regain their Rumanian citizenship, the government maintains they lost their citizenship when the territories were ceded to the U.S.S.R. and classifies them as foreigners, prohibiting them from engaging in gainful occupations.
Of the total number, 10,000 originated in Southern Bukovina which was not ceded to Russia, and their citizenship rights have been restored. Rumanian Jews hope that legal provision will be made for the remainder when Minister of Justice Lucretiu Patrascanu returns from the Paris Peace Conference.
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