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Hungarians Arrested for Helping Jews Escape from Reich into Hungary

The Budapest radio today announced that the Hungarian authorities have uncovered an organization which was allegedly engaged in helping Jews to escape from the Reich into Hungary. “Many members of this organisation have been arrested,” the broadcast stated. Most of the Jews are reported to have crossed into Hungary at the Austrian border. Jews in […]

May 20, 1942
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The Budapest radio today announced that the Hungarian authorities have uncovered an organization which was allegedly engaged in helping Jews to escape from the Reich into Hungary. “Many members of this organisation have been arrested,” the broadcast stated.

Most of the Jews are reported to have crossed into Hungary at the Austrian border. Jews in Vienna, frightened by a recent announcement by the local Nazi commissioner that they will soon be deported to occupied Poland, are making desperate efforts to eater Hungary in order to escape deportation, the Budapest an-

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