About 600 Norwegian Jews who were deported on a Nazi prison ship to Germany, from where they were subsequently transferred to Poland, have arrived in Upper Silesia, according to reliable information reaching here today.
The report stated that most of the men among the deportees have been sent to work in the coal mines near Katowice. A second transport carrying 120 Jews left Oslo last month, but no word has been received here concerning the vessel.
The Swedish press today carries reports that as a result of the desperate shortage of man-power the German occupation authorities in the countries of Western Europe have halted the deportation of Jews to Poland and occupied Russia and, instead are using them to build fortifications in coastal regions where an allied invasion is feared.
The German radio heard here today reported that nine Jews were executed in Berlin last Thursday on the charge of “making preparations to commit high treason.” The Berlin radio also broadcast that one half of all the Jews in Holland have been sent to forced labor and are being held in special “Jewish camps.”
Nazi commissar Schmidt, addressing a public meeting in Utrecht, Holland, severely attacked the Dutch Catholic Church for the active resistance which it displays against the persecution of Jews. “Why do the churches pray for Jews, when hundreds of thousands of Germans are being killed?” he asked, according to a report appearing in a pro-Nazi Dutch paper received here.
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