While demanding ransom from deported Rumanian Jews for allowing them to return from Transnistria to their native towns, the Rumanian Government today announced over the Bucharest radio that the border between Transnistria and Rumania is now open to all other Rumanian nationals so that they can return to any part of old Rumania without any special formalities. The measure has apparently been taken in view of the fact that Transnistria may soon be retaken by the Russian Army.
More than 900 additional business licenses were withdrawn from Jewish enterprises in Rumania this week, the German Transcontinental Press reported today. Jews who are nationals of countries with which Rumania is bound by reciprocal trade treaties will not be affected by the intensified drive to deprive Jews of the right to engage in commerce, the Nazi agency added.
Disregarding an order by the Fascist Government of Northern Italy providing for the release of all Jewish children under thirteen confined in the San Vittore prison in Milan, the Germans have deported a large number of the imprisoned youngsters to Poland, it is reported in the Italian-language Swiss newspaper Corriere del Ticino. There children who were not deported are still confined in the prison, the paper says.
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