Another trainload of Jewish prisoners, the second within four days, was being loaded tonight at the West Station, presumably to be sent to the Dachau concentration camp near Munich as the Gestapo (German secret police) continued its relentless round-up of Jews throughout the city.
Police vans, each carrying thirty prisoners, began to roll up on the arrival side of the terminal at seven p.m. Within an hour at least fourteen vans were unloaded, and more were arriving at ten-minute intervals. German soldiers on guard closed this side of the station to all other traffic during the transfer of prisoners.
Meanwhile, the second death among the Jews arrested since last Friday was reported from Dachau. The victim was Herr Lilienfeld, arrested on Saturday. Police notified his mother he had died suddenly. (The first to be reported dead was Dr. Paul Schott, a dentist who died on Monday of “a heart attack” on a train en route to Dachau, according to the police.)
Police were forced to convert another school into a jail to house the increasing number of victims. The largest single group today was snatched from a queue in front of a charity soup kitchen on the Wohlmuthstrasse. Additional scores were picked up in the Prater, Vienna’s fashionable amusement center, and the National Cafe, popular Jewish rendezvous.
Several hundred of those arrested since the round-up commenced last Friday have been released in the last two days. Most of them had to sign a pledge to leave the country in from ten days to three months. It is probable that additional arrests made in the same period more than balanced the number released.
The possibility that some of the arrested were sent to the Styrian province for reconstruction work in the flood-devastated areas was indicated by the fact that some families of the arrested received cards from the province. These cards, however, bore only conventional greetings. In one case, thirty arrested Jewish youths were warned by the police that they were due for “some real work” in Styria.
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