A decree empowering local mayors to set up ghettos for Jews in towns where the population is larger than 10,000 has been issued by the Hungarian Government and is published in newspapers reaching here today from Budapest. The mayors of towns which have less than 10,000 inhabitants were authorized earlier “to remove” Jewish residents to larger cities.
The Nazi Transocean news agency today reports that the Hungarian Institute for Jewish Research, which was founded in Budapest eighteen months ago along the same lines as the Nazi Institute for Jewish Research in Germany, has been expanded. In the future the institute, which is engaged in collecting material for anti-Semitic propaganda, will have several divisions for the purpose of intensifying its anti-Jewish activities. A special department will also be established at the Institute for journalists who gained experience in the spiritual struggle against Jews,” the report says.
Emphasizing that the mayors of towns of over 10,000 are expected to carry out the ghetto decree as soon as possible, the Hungarian newspapers report that the first provincial ghetto for Jews has already been established in the town of Miskole and that similar ghettos will soon be established in Szeged and in Ujpest. The decree also authorizes the mayors to compel non-Jews to move from the sections to which the Jews are being removed.
JEWS PROHIBITED TO WORSHIP IN SYNAGOGUES THROUGHOUT HUNGARY
Transocean also reports that an order has been issued prohibiting Jews to conduct public worship in synagogues or in any public place. “The ban on public worship was instituted in order to prevent uncontrolled gatherings of Jews,” the report says.
“Prevention of Jewish sabotage has been the guiding principle in putting off the telephone service from Jewish homes, in prohibiting Jews to have radio sets, and in ousting them from the theatre, films, literature, commerce and industry,” the report continues. “These measures were supplemented by travel restrictions on Jews, in order to prevent their uncontrolled moving about from one place to another. The introduction of the yellow badge and the internment of Jews in the war zones is another precaution against sabotage,” the dispatch adds.
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