The Hungarian Government’s latest secret trial which resulted in long prison terms for Jewish leaders was scored by Dr. David Petegorsky, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, today as part of the “continuing campaign to extirpate the last vestiges of Jewish life and free communal and cultural activity” in Hungary.
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