The Jewish Community of Vienna yesterday protested to the Hungarian Minister in Vienna against the trial of three Zionist leaders in Budapest on charges of carrying on various Zionist activties and for maintaining contact with Zionist organizations abroad, it was revealed here today.
The protest expressed the “deep distress” of the Vienna community and pointed out that the Zionist activities, on the basis of which the Jewish leaders are being tried, were legal at the time that they were carried on. It urged that the trials be halted and the defendants released.
The defendants are: Dr. Bela Denes, former leader of the Jewish community of Budapest; Henrik Galos, former secretary general of the Zionist Organization of Budapest; and, Geza Kornitzer, one-time leader of the Orthodox religious community of Budapest. Dr. Denes was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in 1949 on the same charges and was freed in 1952. Mr. Galos and his family were deported from Budapest into the provinces in 1949 and was arrested this Spring. Mr. Kornitzer was also arrested in the Spring.
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