An announcement that no Jew will be left in Holland “by the end of this year” was made by Arthur Seyss-Inquart, chief Nazi commissar for occupied Holland in a speech delivered at Haarlem, and broadcast over the Nazi-controlled radio stations today.
In his address, the Nazi ruler declared that the Jews of Holland will now be concentrated in the Amsterdam ghetto and in a special concentration camp near Vught. He urged non-Jewish Dutchmen to report to the authorities any Jew who may be discovered outside these two centers.
The Swedish press reports today that 400 Jewish children have been torn from their parents in Holland recently and deported by the Nazis to an unknown destination in the east. A pastoral letter condemning this act has been read from the pulpits of all Protestant and Catholic churches in occupied Holland.
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