Asserting that little has been done since the (##)ration of Austria to restore Jews to their former jobs and to return their property, the Vienna Jewish community today submitted a memorandum to the Renner Government containing the following demands:
1. The Government should include Jews on all commissions which will decide expensation and reparations for Jews.
2. Jewish civil service employees should be reinstated, and assigned the (##) which normally would be theirs by now had they not been ousted.
3. Jews ousted from private employment should be reinstated immediately, and receive the same salary and seniority as non-Jewish employees who were not dis(##).
4. Jewish-owned homes and other real estate should be restored to their forever owners, as registered in 1938, before the Auschluss.
5. Former Jewish enterprises which are still “aryanized” should be immediately returned.
6. Where it is not possible to return former Jewish-owned property, the owners should be recompensed.
The memorandum also asked that special taxes be levied upon Nazis responsible for acts of cruelty against Jews, and also that the Government issue a decree holding this collectively responsible for damage suffered by Jews or Jewish-owned property.
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