A special commission investigating Nazi atrocities in Yugoslavia has established that 1,000 Jews remain in Belgrade, the country’s capital, which had a pre-war Jewish population of 12,000, the Free Yugoslav radio announced today. It said that evidence being collected would be submitted to the International Commission on War Crimes.
Most of the Belgrade Jews, the broadcast said, were either murdered or disappeared after being taken to concentration camps. Male inmates of the Janjci, Beli and Potok camps were asphyxiated in mobile gas chambers. Inmates of the Budap camp were shot shortly before the Germans retreated. Some of the prisoners had been so fiendishly tortured that identification of their bodies is impossible.
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