Nearly 25,000 Jews already have been deported from Belgium to Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe it is revealed in the Rexist newspaper Le Pays Reel, which reached here today from Brussels. Most of these Jews originally came from Poland, Germany and Czechoslovakia, the pro-Nazi paper states.
It estimates that there were approximately 52,000 Jews in Belgium before the war, of whom only 4,000 were native-born. Half of the 48,000 foreign-born Jews have been departed to “a place where they earn their bread by the sweat of their brows according to the law of God,” Le Pays Reel writes.
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