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Hungarian Government Orders Purge of “jewish Books” in Book-stores, Libraries

May 14, 1944
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The Hungarian Government today issued an order to all publishers, book stores and libraries to surrender all books written by Jewish authors to local groups collecting paper for salvage.

Another order provides for the payment of ten pengoes by Jews applying for a travel permit. Twenty additional pengoes are to be paid by the applicants if the permit is granted.

Hungarian newspapers reaching here today report that a number of Hungarian non-Jews have been arrested in Budapest for providing Jews with documents identifying them as Christians. The same papers reveal that a large number of non-Jews visited the ghetto in Ungvar on the first day that the Jews were confined there. The visitors brought with them food and other presents for the Jews. As a result, the local police issued strict regulations prohibiting non-Jews from entering the ghetto premises without special permission.

A number of Christians refused to leave their dwellings in the ghetto in Kassa, the Hungarian papers report. They were warned by the local authorities that they would be treated as Jews if they insisted on remaining in the ghetto. In a number of provincial towns, Hungarian girls were arrested for strolling in the street with Jewish young men who were wearing the yellow badge.

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