The murder of 100 British Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp by S.S. troops in July, 1944, was confirmed here today in the current issue of the publication “Jewish Quarterly.” Reports of this Nazi atrocity were received here by members of the Polish Government-in-Exile during the war but were never published by them.
The report in “Jewish Quarterly,” based on a document in the “Archives of Study Trust of the Polish Underground Movement,” said that a single transport of some 100 English Jews was brought to Auschwitz. Among them were well known personalities in European financial circles. Before being sent to the death camp the Jews, all of whom possessed documents proving British nationality, had been interned in Hungary.
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