The Nazi-controlled Paris radio today announced that all Jews who entered France after Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933, will be rounded up and deported from the country.
Former Jewish lawyers and doctors affected by the anti-Jewish laws are now working as stevedores in the port of Marseilles, in the unoccupied part of France, it was reported here today. The report stated that the economic position of the Jews in unoccupied France is becoming more and more precarious. Very many Jews are being ousted from their jobs under the existing anti-Jewish laws and there is no organized effort to find new occupations for them, the report emphasized.
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