Austria is to make an unprecedented change to its nationality law allowing for the children and grandchildren of Holocaust victims to reclaim Austrian citizenship.
The move to allow dual citizenship to Holocaust victims’ descendants — which is currently not possible — was confirmed by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in an exclusive interview to be published in next week’s JC.
“What we want to do is to give all children and grandchildren of Holocaust victims the opportunity to become Austrian citizens if they want to,” he said.
In the interview, to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Mr Kurz also defended his decision to enter into coalition with the far-right Freedom Party and said his country’s embassy would not move to Jerusalem before a political solution has been found.
