The 50,000 Jews of Salonika have fallen into the hands of the German occupation forces, it was learned here today.
Virtually the entire Jewish population of Macedonia and Thrace refused to flee before the German invasion and continued to carry on their work. German military requisitioning of food and other supplies has made the plight of the Jews desperate and they have appealed to American organizations for help of all kinds.
(A Jerusalem dispatch said Dr. Ben-Zion Uziel, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Palestine, cabled Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog, who is now in New York, asking him to appeal to American Jewish institutions to rush aid to Salonika Jews.)
Meanwhile, it was learned here that 180 German Jewish refugees, most of them children, had arrived at Zagreb, Yugoslavia, en route to Palestine on Tuesday–two days before the city was occupied by the Germans. It was believed that since they had left Germany legally they would be allowed to proceed to their destination.
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