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Wide-sfread Arrests of Jews in Hungary; Charged with Pro-allied Activity

August 10, 1944
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While the deportation of Jews from Hungary has been temporarily suspended during recent days, mass-arrests of Jews are taking place throughout the country on charges of “disloyalty to the state” and under the pretext that they are “politically unreliable.”

The Jews arrested include doctors, lawyers, tailors, shoemakers, persons of all walks of life. Most of them are charged with spreading reports of Allied victories on the fighting fronts and with “undermining the morale of the Hungarian people.”

Hungarian newspapers reaching here report that some of the houses confiscated from Jews have been converted into schools for boys, court offices, homes for apprentices, and other public institutions.

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