Establishment of a Jewish rehabilitation fundfrom the proceeds of heirless Jewish property in Czechoslovakia, as promised by the ##te Jan Masaryk, is now doubtful since the establishment of the Communist government, ##lton Winn, chairman of the U.N. Committee of the American Jewish Committee, report## today.
Before his death, the Czech Foreign Minister told Winn that he would urge the creation of a Jewish rehabilitation fund in justice to the Jewish people of his country, Winn revealed. He recently returned from a three-months’ survey of the presently condition of European Jews.
“There is a great deal of property now being administered by the Czechoslovak Government whose former owners cannot be traced because they and their families ?ied in the concentration camps and the gas chambers,” Winn, former deputy chief of ?he UNRRA mission to Czechoslovakia , declared. “The disposition of this property has been cast In doubt because of the nationalization program of the new government. It as recently announced that former Jewish landholdings would not be restored, and his is an indication of a general policy to be followed in the future.”
In Slovakia, Winn asserted, “anti-Semitism is serious and Jews there are ?earful of what will happen.”
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