The Budapest radio today announced that non-Jews have priority on air raid shelters. “Jews can use shelters only when the number of Christians wanting to use them is not large,” the broadcast said. “When there is no place for Jews, the latter should look for protection in some other way.”
Further drastic measures against Jews in Hungary were indicated in an announcement made today over Hungarian radio stations by Lazlo Endre, Commissar for Jewish Affairs. “By the end of August there will be an abundance of Jewish flats available for the non-Jewish population,” he said. In the meantime landlords and their agents throughout Hungary were today given twenty-four hours to submit to the local authorities detailed information about their tenants specifying their racial origin.
Hungarian newspapers reaching here today report that 30,000 Jews in the ghetto of Oradeamare are being “interrogated” on the suspicion that they turned their property over to Christian families prior to being placed in the ghetto. The Hungarian News Service reports that the press in Hungary has intensified its campaign against “Christian concealers of Jewish property.” A number of large department stores in Budapest, including the “Pariszi Lagy” and the “Aruazh,” have been closed down by the authorities on suspicion that they are “camouflaged Jewish enterprises,” the news agency says.
In the city of Szombathely the local authorities are allowing only fifty Jews to shop each day. The fifty are selected by the chief of police. Jews in that city are forbidden to leave their homes on Sundays and holidays.
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