A law passed by the Austrian parliament on Thursday will grant citizenship to descendants of Nazi persecution.
According to the Jewish Chronicle, a British publication, the law applies to children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Jews and other ethnicities who had to flee Austria because of Nazi persecution up until 1945, the year World War II ended.
The law will come into effect in September 2020.
Last year, then-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz told the Jewish Chronicle that he was interested in having Austria's citizenship laws amended so that "all children and grandchildren of Holocaust victims would have the opportunity to become Austrian citizens if they want to."
The new law does not differentiate between those who were Austrian citizens when they fled and nationals of a country that used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
