Attempts to locate Otto Komoly, last president of the Hungarian Zionist Federation, have been abandoned, because reliable witnesses have stated that Komoly was murdered in Budapest last December by fascist storm troopers, it is reported today from the Hungarian capital.
Among the surviving Jews in Budapest, however, is aged Samuel Stern, former president of the city’s Jewish community council, who, miraculously, escaped deportation and death.
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