The case of two Jewish brothers whose application for the restitution of their textile factory at Broumov has been rejected by the authorities on the grounds that they “favored” Germans by employing six German employees among their 270 workers is receiving wide publicity in the local Jewish press.
The brothers, one of whom survived a concentration camp and the other returned to Czechoslovakia from Palestine, registered as of Czech nationality in the 1930 census, which will bar their ineligibility for restitution on the grounds that they were not nationals. A recent ruling restricted restitution to persons who registered as either Czechs or Jew. Jewish circles here point out that the District National Committee’s rejection of the brothers’ claim is illegal since they cannot be held responsible for the loyalty or nationality of their employees.
According to some sources here the reason for the rejection of the brothers’ ruling is the alleged fact that the nationalized Czechoslovak Textile Works wants to absorb the factory. The brothers, named Goldmann, survived two other brothers who died in concentration camps. The factory in dispute is the A. Lowy and Co. plant.
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