Mass deportation of Jews by the Soviet authorities to forced labor camps was charged here today by Dr. Bela Fabian, member of the Hungarian National Council, on the basis of reports received by him from the underground movement in Hungary.
The reports said that “almost the entire Jewish population of the Ukraine, Byelorussia and the Crimea” have been deported to Eastern Siberia and that preparations are being made in Hungary to deport 20,000 persons, many of them Jews, to forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The reports from the underground movement also indicated increased anti-Semitism in Hungary. In making these reports public, Dr. Fabian said that he also has grounds for fearing that the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Soviet camps may soon take place.
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