German newspapers reaching here today from Berlin report that the Bulgarian Government has issued an order providing that “all able-bodied persons of Jewish faith throughout the country must be sent to labor camps.”
The majority of the 25,000 Jews whom the Bulgarian Government is now expelling from Sofia will be confined in three Bulgarian villages, the Swedish press reported, today. They will be forbidden to leave these villages and will not be permitted to leave their homes after nine o’clock in the evening.
Restricted shopping hours for the expelled Jews have been proclaimed in the villages. No Jew is allowed to possess a radio and to enter moving-picture houses, parks and bathing places, the Swedish paper Nya Daglight Allehanda said in its report from Sofia.
The same report stated that the Bulgarian cabinet has established a special commission to liquidate the jewelry and other valuables which Bulgarian Jews were ordered to deposit with the National Bank in Sofia, with the Bulgarian Agricultural Bank and with the Credit Bank. The commission is composed of two representatives of the Ministry of Finance, one representative of each of the three banks and one representative of the Commissariate for Jewish Affairs.
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