A new Commissariat for Jewish Questions has been created within the Rumanian Labor Secretariat, under a new law issued by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Public Welfare, the official German news agency, DNB, reports today.
The new commissariat, DNB says, will supervise the organization of Jewish forced labor, reduce the number of Jews in the professions and will supervise all Jewish centers and organizations for emigration. Hitherto, the last two functions were performed by the government Delegate for Settlement of the Jewish Question.
The Bucharest radio today announced that under a new amendment to the “Rumanization” Law severe punishment will be meted out to violators of the regulation. It also quotes an article in the anti-Semitic Iron Guard newspaper, Porunca Vremi, attacking Dr. William Filderman, Jewish leader, who was recently allowed to return to Bucharest from Transnistria, where he had been deported. The article charges that Dr. Filderman has acted “insolently” against the nationalist movement since 1926 and planned the return of confiscated Jewish property after the war.
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