All Turkish Jews in occupied Belgium, hitherto exempted from the German anti-Jewish laws as a concession to neutral Turkey, were rounded up this week and sent to the Melines concentration camp, Belgium Government officials reported today.
The Belgian Government-in-Exile announced that it has definitely established that there is no truth to the German reports that Jews from Belgium have been sent to Holland. “Actually these Jews have been departed to Silesia under the most terrible conditions after being stripped of all their belongings,” the announcement said.
A report reaching the Belgian Government here states that the furniture and other belongings confiscated by the German occupation authorities in Belgium from homes of departed Jews are now installed in “homes for German soldiers” which are being established all over Belgium.
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