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Jewish Relief Workers Arrested in Unoccupied France

September 10, 1942
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The Swiss press today reports that a number of Jewish relief workers who were conducting Swiss relief work in a camp for Jewish children in unoccupied France were suddenly arrested by armed French gendarmes and led away to an unknown destination.

The arrested persons included a Jewish doctor M. Peters, his wife and two Jewish girls who worked as his assistants. Sixty Jewish children were also taken from the same camp and their whereabouts remain unknown. The arrest of the Swiss-Jewish relief workers took place despite the fact that the Vichy Government had definitely promised not to interfere with the work of Swiss relief organizations in unoccupied France.

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