The first concentration camp in the Danzing territory was opened yesterday at Guetland. The first inmates were 60-odd Jews unable to work under the Free City’s anti-Semitic laws. It was expected that they would be put to work at construction of barracks, possibly fortifications later.
Chief Rabbi Leo Baeck has been appointed president of the Reichsvereinigung, all inclusive Jewish organization recently set by the German Government to speed emigration of Jews from the Reich, it was announced today. Dr. Baeck was president of the Reichsvertretung, former representative German-Jewish body.
Dr. Otto Hirsch, formerly chairman and director of the Reichsvertretung, has been named manager of the new organization. Leading members of the executive committee are former heads of the Reichsvertretung and the Hilfsverein, Jewish relief and emigration-aid organization.
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