A recent diphtheria epidemic in the Vught concentration camp in Holland where Jews are held pending deportation to Eastern Europe resulted in the death of fifty Jewish children a day, a report reaching the Netherlands Information Office in London said.
As reported today by the Office of War Information, this account said that many other Jews were dying of illness because there were not enough physicians in the camp and that undernourishment also was raising the mortality rate.
When an internee dies, the report continued, relatives are told that the ashes of the deceased will be available a week later on payment of 60 guilders. If the relatives come to Vught they are given some ash shovelled up from a large heap of remains of the cremated internees.
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