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Heirless Jewish Property to Be Exempted from Czechoslovak Government Confiscation

August 11, 1947
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Jewish community leaders in Czechoslovakia won an important victory this week-end when Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk and representatives of the Finance Ministry agreed to exempt the proceeds of heirless Jewish property from fund which the government will use to repay depositors whose currency holdings were frozen shortly after the liberation.

The issue created a furor within the Jewish community because the funds had ## promised for use in the economic rehabilitation of surviving Jews. The negotiators for the Jewish community were A.L. Easternman, representative of the World Jewish congress, and delegates of the Council of Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia.

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