Refugees from Czechoslovakia reported here yesterday that Jews in that country hardly dare to appear in public and that buildings are plastered with signs: “Hang the Jews” and “The Jews are Ruining Czechoslovakia.” A Jewish refugee from Hungary, who asked that his name be withheld, stated that the “oppression of Jews in Hungary is now worse than it was under the Nazi regime.”
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