More than 8,000 inventories of Jewish property have already been submitted to the government by Jewish owners, under the recently adopted Bulgarian law providing for surrender of such property to the state, it is reported in the Sofia newspaper “Utro” reaching here today.
The Bulgarian authorities have drawn up a plan for allotting the confiscated Jewish property to important governmental institutions.
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