The Italian Government has granted a request of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities that Jews deported from Italy by the Nazis and fascists during the war be declared officially dead if they were still missing three years after hostilities ended.
The request was addressed to the government after the Union had received complaints that local courts had, in some instances, refused to apply the law on declaration of death of missing persons to deportees. The government agreed to send a clarification of its order to the presiding justices of all Italian appelate courts.
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