Anti-emigration sentiments which have been openly manifested by governmental sources are now cropping up in Jewish circles.
At a meeting yesterday in Pece, Chief Rabbi Ferens Hevesi urged the Jews to forgive the Hungarians for the sufferings visited upon them. “Let them see that you are not members of a vindictive race,” he added, Another speaker said that “those wishing to leave should not disturb those who want to remain in the land to which they have become attacked.”
The Jewish community, however, still has many grievances. Under the proposed land reform law, there is a danger that Jews will not recover property confiscated from them in 1942. Many Jews are also embittered by the delay in repatriating all Hungarian Jews who were deported by the Nazis. Many are still missing, and nothing is known of their situation or whereabouts.
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