All Jewish patients, including the blind, were recently removed from hospitals throughout occupied Holland by the Nazi occupation authorities, it was reported today by the Netherland Government-in-Exile.
A clandestine paper reaching London today from Holland reports that Jewish patients were also removed from the insane asylums there. They were all loaded into sealed trains where many of them died in the course of their journey to an unknown destination.
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