Jews in Italy are perturbed over the fact that while the Italian news agency Stefani, as well as the Home radio, announced the abrogation of Mussolini’s anti-Jewish laws, no actual abrogation has taken place as yet.
Jewish leaders in Rome who intervened with the Badoglio government to have all the anti-Jewish regulations repealed, have received no satisfactory reply, it was reported here today. It appears almost certain that the new Italian regime is not willing to re-establish complete equality between Jews and “Aryans.”
While several Italian Jews who were ousted from their high military positions were reported to have received notification to hold themselves ready for re-instatement in the service, none of the former Jewish officers in the civil administration has been re-instated as yet, Even Jewish journalists are not allowed to contribute articles to Italian newspapers, or to work in the administrative offices of Italian publications.
In the city of Genoa, the marriage license office still refuses to issue licenses to Jews who wish to marry non-Jewish girls. The Jewish situation in Italy as it stands today, three weeks after the fall of Mussolini, may be said to be unaltered save for a few exceptions in individual cases.
The situation of the interned alien Jews in Italy has similarly not under-gone any improvement since the fall of Mussolini. The camp in Ferramoniti-Tarisa, where the inmates were mostly Polish Jews, has been liquidated, but the internees were transferred to other camps, a report received here today from Italy disclosed.
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