Hundreds of hunted Jews of France are making desperate efforts to cross the Franco-Swiss frontier into Switzerland but are being turned back by the Swiss authorities, it is reported today in the newspaper La Sentinelle.
Many who do succeed in crossing the frontier, are later apprehended and must make the return journey, the Swiss paper states. The paper protests against “the turning over of prosecuted and helpless people who hoped to find asylum in our country and who are certain to face death in many cases when sent back.”
The Paris newspaper Le Petit Parisien, reaching here today, states that the deportation of 4,000 “homeless Jews” from unoccupied France “is only the beginning of the expulsion of all French and alien Jews.” The pro-Nazi paper charges the Jews in France with “demoralizing the French community.”
FRENCH PEOPLE RELUCTANT TO BUY JEWISH PROPERTY IN PARIS
The reluctance on the part of the French to buy houses which formerly belonged to Jews is indirectly revealed in the Nazi-controlled Paris newspaper “Le Matin.” An article in this paper says that “buying Jewish real estate is an excellent operation which does not involve any risk.”
To “prove” that the French buyers need not fear any dispossession after the war, the pro-Nazi paper finds an analogy in the case of property in France nationalized during the time of the First French Republic which was not restored to the former owners when monarchy followed. “The laws governing the Jews in France, as proclaimed by the French Government in Vichy, are valid also for occupied France,” the paper reassures those with qualms.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
