A shortage of coffins has been responsible for the failure to exhume the bodies of all Hungarian Jewish victims of the Nazis from mass graves, it was revealed here. Government support in obtaining coffins and money for the operations has been promised.
It has been estimated by Demokracia, a Budapest weekly publication, that there are still more than 20,000 Jewish corpses in mass graves throughout the country. The government has been asked to draw up lists of all mass graves and to undertake identification of the dead. Thus far, of some 600,000 Jewish victims only 43,000 have been identified.
A 120-bed tuberculosis hospital which will be attached to the local Orthodox hospital will be opened shortly. The institution, which is being established with a grant of $36,000 contributed by the United American Hungarian Jewish Association, will augment a 40-bed tuberculosis ward opened last year by the Joint Distribution Committee. Patients will be admitted on a non-sectarian basis.
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