The Algiers radio today reported that the German occupation authorities in France are planning to intensify their anti-Jewish campaign, with native Jews as their chief target. The broadcast stated that a state of siege may soon be proclaimed all over France “with immediate measures against Jews” in connection with the expected Allied invasion.
A Belgian who recently fled here from his homeland told today how a Jewish woman deportee had her hands shot off by machine-gun fire when she tried to smuggle a letter to her family notifying them that she was being deported. When the train in which the woman, together with several thousand other Jews, was being shipped to Poland passed the station of Basselt, Belgium, she threw a letter out of the car. As she did so Nazi guards opened fire on her, riddling her hands which hung outside the car. A bystander braved the gun fire to pick up the letter and succeeded in sending it on to the woman’s family.
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