Hospitals and sanitoriums throughout Hungary are being raided by the police and Jewish patients are being dragged from there for deportation to Nazi-held Galicia, it is reported in German newspapers which reached Lisbon today.
The Boersen Zeitung and other Berlin newspapers publish long accounts of how the Jewish Hospital in Budapest and the Schwanenberg sanitorium there were invaded by the Hungarian police who removed many foreign-born Jews from these institutions to a concentration center preparatory to deporting them to Galicia. Similar raids are reported to have also taken place in health resorts on the Plattensee which are usually patronized by elderly Jews. There are at present 12,000 Jews held in the concentration camp at Korosmezo, awaiting transportation to Galicia, the Boersen Zeitung reports from Budapest.
Private reports reaching Lisbon from Hungary disclose that it is no longer safe for a Jew to appear in the street. All Jews are stopped by police and asked for citizenship certificates. Those who have no such certificates with them, are immediately arrested. On the other hand, the authorities refuse to issue such certificates to Jews even if they are bona-fide Hungarian citizens.
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