The Under – Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, M.S. Pesmatjoglou, today confirmed that the German docree expropriating Jewish property in Salonich has not yet been repealed.
Replying to a query by a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent, Mr. Pesmatjeglou said that the law will probably be annulled after the end of the war in Europe by the issuance of a decree creating an autonomous board to administer the property of deported Jews whose whereabouts are not known. Much of the Jewish property in Salenica was either confiscated or “bought” by collaborationists, and from all indications it will take some time to recover it.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance has instructed the local authorities that the surviving Jews in the city – about 400 of the pre – war Jewish population of 46,000 are to have their property and other belongings returned. The survivors told a JTA carrespondent that they believe most of the deportees are dead.
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