The Jewish hospital in Budapest, one of the largest and most modern hospitals in Central Europe, and six other Jewish hospitals in Hungary, have been confiscated by the Hungarian authorities for the accommodation of large numbers of wounded Hungarian soldiers who continue to arrive from the Russian front, it was learned here today. The Jewish communities in the cities where the hospitals were located were given short notice to remove all Jewish patients from the institutions.
In Rumania the local authorities have issued an order ordering all Jews born in 1925 to report for forced labor, it is announced in the Rumanian newspaper Argus, which reached here today from Bucharest.
In Slovakia, the Minister of Education has issued an order to all schools and libraries instructing them to remove the works of ninety-three authors, the majority of whom are Jews. All Slovakian newspapers reaching here today from Bratislava carry inspired articles demanding the “immediate deportation” of all Jews who still remain in the country.
Newspapers from Prague received here today report that only a small number of the original 35,000 Jews who lived in the Czech capital in 1930 remain there. They estimate that 60,000 Jews are now being held in the fortress city of Teresin of whom 16,000 are from the Czech Protectorate and the remainder from Germany, Austria and Holland. The majority of the Czech Jews have been deported to Poland, they report.
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