Nazi officials in occupied Holland are now moving the Jews from Dutch provincial towns into the Amsterdam ghetto, under the pretext that they intend to make Amsterdam “a port of exodus for Jews from Europe.”
Reliable information reaching here today states that the new “Jewish policy” of the Nazi occupational authorities is to concentrate in Amsterdam the entire Jewish population of Holland which is now estimated to be about 150,000 persons. Whenever a Jew in Holland applies to the German authorities for permission to change his residence, he is allowed to move to Amsterdam only. In some cases, the entire Jewish population of a number of provincial towns has been transferred to Amsterdam.
Supervision of these Dutch Jews has been entrusted to the German police only, since the Nazis have found the Dutch police to be “over-sympathetic” to the Jews. In Amsterdam, the Jews are completely cut off from any communication with the non-Jewish part of the city, but are allowed to carry on their cultural activities among themselves. The information which reached here today from Holland states that there are at present in Amsterdam a few Jewish theatres, one orchestra nineteen coffee houses and two hotels where admittance is limited to Jews only. The Jewish weekly newspaper, Joodsche Weekblad, edited by Joachim Tahl, is the only Jewish publication in Holland permitted by the Nazi occupation authorities.
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