More than 30,000 Jews of those deported during the winter from Bessarabia and Bukovina into Transnistria, the Rumanian-held section of Soviet Ukraine, have died from typhus, according to a report reaching here today.
The situation of the Jews in Rumania, the report said, is becoming similar to that in Poland. The Rumanian Jews are now receiving only half of the food ration given to the rest of the population.
An article by Dr. Conti, chief of the Nazi health office, broadcast today over the Berlin radio, states that 672 cases of spotted typhus have been registered during the last month among Jews in territories incorporated into the Reich as compared with 220 such cases among non-Jews and 8 cases among Germans. Dr. Conti, whose article was published in the Berliner Boerzen-Zeitung, is known as the “Julius Streicher of medical Germany” – a name which he acquired for his ferocious campaign against Jewish doctors and dentists in the early days of the Nazi regime.
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