Despite the official denial that there is a mass Jewish migration movement from Germany to Czechoslovakia, the Czechoslovakian press continues to publish reports to this effect, aimed primarily at inciting against Czechoslovakian Jews.
The papers allege that Czech Jews are ready to receive German Jews despite the unemployment situation and the general hardships in the country.
Replying to this incitement, the Zionist organ, “Zidovske Sprave,” recalls that after the Communist Revolution in Russia, hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived in Czechoslovakia and that though many of them were responsible for pogroms against the Jews, they enjoyed subsidies from the government, made possible through taxes on the people, in which the Jews shared to a considerable extent.
At this time, the Jews, notwithstanding that they were the sufferers did not protest. “Therefore,” says the paper, “should Jews from other countries escape from pogromists, we would consider it our solemn duty to assist them and the present agitation will neither intimidate us nor prevent us from carrying out this intention.”
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