Galicia is without a single organized Jewish community now, following the extermination by the Nazis of a majority of the Jewish inhabitants, it was reported here today. The several thousand Jews who survive as workers for German industry who cannot be replaced, are confined to labor camps under very rigid discipline, says the report.
“The formerly Jewish populated towns in Galicia are almost completely bare,” adds the report, “with no residents to take the place of the annihilated Jews. To the bareness is added the ruins of large portions of the Jewish quarters which have been completely burned down by the Nazis.”
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