There are no Jewish women and children left in the liberated Carpathian towns of Munkacz and Uzhorod, which had large Jewish populations, it is reported here today. The present Jewish population of Munkacz consists of 300 men. In Uzhorod only 160 Jewish men were left alive by the retreating Hungarian-German armies. Before the war Munkacz had 13,000 Jews and Uzhorod, 8,000.
The first eye-witness report of the extermination of the last few thousands Jews in the large towns of Slovakia was given here today by a Jewish refugee who succeeded in escaping to Rumania as a result of a partisan uprising against the Nazi-controlled Slovakian government in the Banska-Bistrica region.
The escaped Jew reported that he witnessed the deportation by German police of all Jews from the towns of Nitra, Zilina and Trnovo. These Jews, numbering more than 4,000, were all sent to Nazi-held Poland last August 15. Two weeks later all Jews of Bratislava, the Slovakian capital, including converts, were also deported by the Germans.
“Many of the Slovakian Jews who were held in concentration camps succeeded in escaping when the revolt in Banska-Bistrica broke out,” the eye-witness stated. “They all joined the revolt and the majority of them were killed while fighting.”
The pro-Nazi Hungarian government today broadcast a violent anti-Jewish attack in connection with the establishment of a free Hungarian Government in the liberated section of Hungary headed by General Bela Miklos. “No one is surprised at the fact that the Miklos group annulled the anti-Jewish laws,” the broadcast said, charging the free government with “delivering the country to international Jewry.”
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