Two proposals to facilitate restoration of citizenship to Polish Jews abroad, who were denationalized by the pre-war Government were offered to the Polish National Council today by Dr. Ignacy Schwartzbart, one of the two Jewish deputies in the body.
The motions are designed to augment the decree by the Government-in-exile abolishing the citizenship law of 1958 which provided that Poles resident abroad for more than five years lost their citizenship rights. The great majority of the persons affected by the 1938 law were Jews.
Dr. Schwartzbart’s first motion would automatically restore citizenship to those who had been out of Poland for five years or more; while the second motion would enable the Government to accept evidence other than passports and birth certificates as proof of citizenship in the cases of those Poles who have lost these documents as a result of the war.
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