The confiscation of Jewish property in Rumania, which began in 1940, has now been completed, it is reported in the Swiss press today quoting a statement issued by the Rumanian Labor Minister Danilescu.
The St. Gallen Tageblatt, a Swiss newspaper, in an editorial voicing sympathy for the Jews of Rumania, estimates that of the 800,000 Jews who resided in Rumania before the war, more than 200,000 are now in the part of Transylvania annexed by Hungary from Rumania. Another 200,000 Jews, mostly residents of Bessarabia, fled to Russia prior to the re-occupation of that Rumanian province by German-Rumanian troops. Of the remaining 400,000 Jews in Rumania proper, only about 275,000 are left alive, the paper writes, emphasizing that many of these Jews are held in special camps and forced to do compulsory labor.
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