Some 5,000 Belgian and Alsatian Jews have been arrested in unoccupied France and interned in the Gours and St. Cyprien concentration camps, it was reported today by Joseph Stokes, of the American Friends Service Committee, who left France three days ago after a survey of medical needs in the war-stricken country and arrived on the Clipper at LaGuardia Airport today.
Stokes predicted that more Jews would be interned in the near future. He visited the St. Cyprien camp and said that “conditions are not good.”
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