Published: 24 September 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
AUSTRIA’S PARLIAMENT HAS VOTED to grant citizenship to the descendants of Nazi victims, who fled the country under Hitler’s Third Reich.
MPs voted by a broad majority for new legislation proposed by Sebastian Kurz’s conservative-far-right coalition government before it was deposed in a corruption scandal in May.
Under the new law, the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who fled the Nazis can apply for citizenship. Until now only Holocaust survivors themselves could obtain Austrian nationality.
FULL STORY Austria votes to grant citizenship to descendants of Holocaust survivors (Times of Israel)
Photo: Members of the international Mauthausen committee arrive for a ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen, Austria, May, 2015 (AP/Ronald Zak)
