All Jews in Czechoslovakia of German and Hungarian nationality, except those who actively engaged in Germanization or Hungarianization, will be granted Czechoslovak citizenship and will have their confiscated property returned, under a decision taken by the Ministry of the Interior, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today.
Up to the present, property seized from the German and Hungarian Jews during the Nazi occupation has not been returned and there has been considerable agitation for meting out the same treatment to them which is being given other persons of German and Hungarian nationality–deportation and expropriation of property. In some sections local authorities even ordered seizure of the property of such Jews. However, under the Interior Ministry’s ruling they will be treated as are all other victims of the Nazis.
A World Jewish Congress Committee was established here today under the leadership of Karel Stein, chairman of the Jewish Community of Prague. Thus far only the Jewish communities of Slovakia are affiliated with the Congress, and the Prague committee will endeavor to have the Jewish communities of Bohemia and Moravia join the Congress.
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