Religious Jews are included in a category of “Class Five” citizens currently being rounded up in Hungary’s main cities and being sent to internment camps, according to a report received here from Budapest.
Others included in the “Class Five” category are: “exploiters,” “enemies of the people,” “Western-minded” Protestants, and Roman Catholic priests, the report stated. The man said to be responsible for the decree, Dr. Bola SzanthO, is reported to have died suddenly last week.
The towns in which “Class Five” citizens have been rounded up thus far include Budapest, Miskelez, Szeged, Gyor and Debroczon. It is believed that the decision to incarcerato those people was taken suddenly because the internment camps are apparently unprepared to handle them and the now arrivals are not provided with the bare necessities of life.
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