Because the German authorities in Denmark insisted that all Jewish names be left out of the Danish “Who’s Who,” the publication will not be issued this year, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports today. The report says that in defiance of the Nazi order, the Danes decided not to publish “Who’s Who” at all rather than omit the names of Danish Jews.
A Polish Jew from Rawa-Ruska, Galicia, who escaped to Sweden through the aid of the Polish underground movement, today described in the newspaper Sydvenska Dagbladet how the Gestapo executed hundred of Jews daily in an ancient subterranean fortification near Belzec.
“The Germans established a large crematorium there,” the escaped Jew writes. “Every day, since May 1942, ten trains packed with Jews were brought to the execution place near the crematorium. Each train had 50 cars with many Jews packed into each car. The Jews were executed on the day they arrived.”
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