Jews in Czechoslovakia fear that violent antiSemitism may develop as the german army closes around the dwindling republic, the associated press reported today from praha. jewish leaders most fear the results of concentrating too many Jews in shrunken Czechoslovakia, because refugees are rushing into the interior. Franz Friedmann, Jewish Party member of the Praha Municipal Council, said most of the 29,000 Jews who lived in the first four areas ceded to the Reich had evacuated.
Other refugees, the dispatch said, have come up to the Praha region from Slovakia, where the new slovak regime has adopted an anti-semitic resolution.
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