The expulsion of all Jews from the Nazi-held Dutch cities of Haarlem, Heemstede, Bloemendal, Aardenhout and Voorschoten was reported here today. The expulsions took place on February 15, reliable information states. An order issued by Commissar Router forbids Jews to live in these cities in the future, or even to enter them.
At the same time the Nazi occupation authorities in Holland issued a warning to Jews in other cities there to move to the Amsterdam ghetto “as soon as possible.” The warning added that in The Hague only those Jews who hold special passes from the Gestapo would be permitted to enter the “evacuated” area of the city.
The Joodsche Weeksblad, organ of the Jewish Council in the Amsterdam ghetto, reaching here today carries an announcement that the Nazi administration in Holland has forbidden Dutch charity workers to enter the homes of Jews and to give them any aid. “Severe penalties” are provided for those violating this order. Another issue of the same paper reaching here today carries an official Nazi announcement that because of the large number of children being abandoned in the Netherlands, the Nazi authorities intend to treat such abandoned children as Jewish and to confine them in Jewish institutions.
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