Segregation of all the Jews in Salonika into a closed ghetto is contemplated by the Nazi authorities in Greece following an order issued there introducing yellow armbands for Jews, it was learned here today.
Reports from Greece reveal that the Nazi military authorities in Salonica and Athens have ordered a census of the Jewish population with a view to establishing the number of Jews who served in the Greek military forces fighting the Italian and German armies. The same reports state that able-bodied Jews in Salonika and in Athens are being ordered to report for forced labor and will be organized in special Jewish labor battalions.
The wealthier Jews in Salonika have been ordered to move into the section of the city inhabited by the poor Jewish population. The homes of the richer Jews in the city have been occupied by Nazi officers, who did not permit the owners to remove any of their belongings. It is believed that the Jews of Athens and other parts of Greece will be ordered to leave for Salonika, where the Nazis intend to segregate all the 70,000 Jews of Greece and isolate them behind the walls of a ghetto, as was done with the Jews in Warsaw.
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