Only 40,000 Jews remain in Warsaw of the 500,000 Jews who lived in the ghetto there, the Stockholm newspaper Svenska Morgenbladet states today in a front page article reported to the Office of War Information here. The Swedish paper said that its facts were based on information received by the Swedish Israel Mission “from direct sources.”
Only a “miraculous rescue” could save those remaining from death because “starvation is common and typhus is rampant,” the article states. The Morgenbladet also reports that only 7,000 Jews remain in Vienna, of a pre-war Jewish population of 200,000.
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