Jewish Leaders in Czechoslovakia Testify Before Anglo-american Inquiry Committee

Leaders of the Jewish community here appeared before a sub-committee of the Anglo-American inquiry committee and testified on the situation of the Jews in Slovakia and in Bohemia-Moravia. They also submitted a memorandum to the sub-committee in which they discussed the problem of the Carpathian Jews.

M. Winterstein, testifying on behalf of the Jews in Slovakia, stressed the difference in the situation of the Jewish population in Bohemia-Moravia and that in Slovakia. He pointed out that in Slovakia anti-Semitism is “much stronger” and also emphasized the fact that confiscated Jewish property held by the Slovak State and individuals has not yet been returned to the former owners. He estimated that sixty percent of all the Jews in Slovakia want to emigrate to Palestine.