Two hundred and fifty Luxemburg Jews over 65 years old were today reported to have been executed by gas in an old monastery in Ulflingen where they had been confined since the Gestapo rounded them up last October.
They were among 600 Jews, all over 50, who were arrested by the Nazi secret police. The majority of those arrested were reportedly sent to the Warsaw ghetto.
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