A census of all foreign or naturalized Jews who entered Algeria after Jan. 1, 1936 is in progress and will be concluded April 30, it was announced here today. A similar census has already been taken in other French possessions.
The Pariser Zeitung today carries a report of the arrest of a Jew, Meyer Waijbort, who escaped from the Drancy concentration camp seven months ago. The Nazi paper reveals that Weijbart succeeded in reaching Marseilles; proceeded from there to Britanny and then went to Paris where he was captured.
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