One out of every five Hungarian Jews declared that they adhered to the “Jewish nationality” when queried during the official census of 1941, according to statistics made public in Budapest this week and appearing in Hungarian newspapers received here.
While 724,000 persons, or 4.9 percent of the population, declared that they were of the “Jewish religion,” 150,000 of them said that they were of “Jewish nationality.” Of this latter group many reported that Yiddish or Hebrew was their native tongue.
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