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The fate of Leo Herzog

The alleged coordinator of the Zionist spies in Brno, i.e. the old men and women who depended on support from the Jewish community, was supposed to be Leo Herzog, himself one of the thirteen survivors of the Brno transport F to Minsk.

In the text of his indictment we can read that "from 1954 to the summer of 1957, in Brno and elsewhere, in conjunction with and in agreement with representatives of the Israeli embassy, he organized so-called support actions", i.e. the distribution of social aid to the survivors living on the social pension the Communists intended for "bourgeois elements".

Further, that in the case of the distribution of these social support funds, "these were actions aimed at subverting the moral-political unity of our people", because in our country everyone has enough of everything, "but the accused willingly joined in this state-hostile enterprise."

The social work carried out within the social department of the Jewish community was then described as subversion of the republic, espionage, and, in fact, treason.

Listen now to the audio recording of Mr. Herzog's daughter, Mrs. Judith Youdell, on a recording made by Tanya Klementová.


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