There ere over 144,000 Jews living in Hungary according to a survey just released here. The report, which cover’s the period since the liberation of the country, reveals that there over 96,500 Jaws in Budapest, or 67.2 percent of the total.
The birth-rate during the past year was 25.2 per 1,000 while 1,158 Jewish couples were married in Budapest during the first eight months of 1947. The figures for the provincial areas are not included in the report.
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