The Gestapo has begun arresting Hungarian Jews in France and Monte Carlo, and is transporting them to unknown destinations in sealed trains, it was learned here today from Hungarian newspapers. Among those arrested were 210 wealthy Hungarian Jews who had been residing in Monte Carlo, on the Riviera, for many years.
At the same time, it was reported in the Swedish press today that Yugoslav partisan units of Marshal Tito recently made special raids into Hungarian territory to rescue Jews who reached the Hungarian-Yugoslav frontier from Budapest and other parts of Hungary. These Jews, as well as other Hungarian political refugees, were enabled by the partisans to reach Tito’s armies and join in the fight against the Germans, the report says.
The Svenska Morgenbladet carries a report from Hungary stating that the majority of the inhabitants of the Lipotvaros, Terezvaros, and Jossefvaros districts of Budapest are wearing the yellow star of David. The paper also reports that leaders of the Budapest Jewish community, whose names are not given, were arrested this week for “sabotage” because they refused to give their dwellings to Germans whose homes were destroyed in the British-American air raids over Germany.
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