Nazis Order Jews in Amsterdam Ghetto to Share Rooms with Deported Families

The continual “evacuation” of Jews from the provincial cities in Nazi-occupied Holland to the ghetto in Amsterdam, has resulted in an order being issued by the Amsterdam Nazi authorities, making it obligatory for Jewish families in the ghetto to give shelter to Jews driven from the provinces. The order is published in the Joodsche Weekblad, organ of the Jewish Council in the Amsterdam ghetto, reaching here today.

The Nazi-censored Jewish newspaper states that the Jewish homes in the Amsterdam ghetto are so overcrowded with Jews deported from other sections of the country, that it is impossible to induce anymore any of the Amsterdam Jews to voluntarily give shelter to the “evacuated” Jewish families who continue to arrive. Under the new order of the Nazi authorities, the Jewish Council of the ghetto is compelled to house the “evacuated” Jews no matter how many people have to be crowded into one room.

In a broadcast on the Nazi-controlled Hilversum radio heard here today Ernst Voorhoeve, a Dutch Nazi leader, denounced Dutch girls who “ostentatiously walk the streets, arm in arm, with Jews wearing the Mogen Davids in order to display their hatred of the Nazis.” Voorhoeve tacitly admitted that the Dutch people continue to resist the anti-Jewish laws, and reiterated that the Mogen David regulation was necessary “because it is imperative to be able to distinguish between Jews and Aryans.”