The Hungarian authorities have resumed deportation of Jews from Budapest and border towns in Western Hungary, according to authoritative information received here today by the executive of the Agudas Israel, Orthodox Jewish organization. The towns affected include Gyor, Sopron and Szombathely.
In Budapest, according to this information, the deportees are given two days’ notice that they will have to leave the capital but are not informed of the destination to which they are being sent. The reports indicate that a number of previous deportation orders have been reviewed and the deportees permitted to return to Budapest from eastern Hungary. Their former homes, however, are not being restored to them and many of them are suffering considerable hardships, particularly the aged.
Representatives of the Agudist executive have conferred in Paris with the Joint Distribution Committee on the situation in Hungary. They were informed that the J.DC. is now responsible for the maintenance of 15,000 Hungarian Jews aged over
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