Eighty Jews who were captured by the Red Army while on the Russian front as part of Hungarian forced labor battalions have arrived in Slovakia en route to Hungary, after having been released by the Soviet authorities. Before they will be allowed to re-enter Hungary, they will be obliged to prove that they did not collaborate with the fascists.
It is reported here from Vienna that the Austrian Government has sent a quarry to Moscow concerning the fate of 1,000 Jews driven into Russian-occupied Poland by the Nazis in 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the war. About 190 have returned to Vienna and many are reported to have been killed by the Germans, but the fate of the others is not known.
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