For the past several months, the Nazi occupation authorities in Belgium have been delivering to the crematorium at Uccle, a suburb of Brussels, the bodies of a large number of Jews, with orders that they were to be cremated immediately, according to information reaching official Belgian circles today from underground sources.
The total number of such bodies that have been cremated in the past few months is not known, but it is reported that it is substantial. None of the bodies were accompanied by the usual permit from the municipal authorities required before cremation and various reports have spread throughout Brussels concerning how these Jews met their death. However, no definite information as to who they were and the circumstances of their death can be ascertained, the report to the Belgian Government here stated.
At the same time, it was learned today that among the ten hostages recently executed by the Germans in Belgium in reprisal for the murder of several members of the fascist Wallon and Flemish legions, was a Jew, Michael Loewenwirth.
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