Nazi occupational authorities in Holland, in a radio broadcast today, announced that a number of non-Jews have been arrested in Southern Holland for giving shelter to Jews who were hiding there to escape deportation.
The announcement was accompanied by a warning to the Dutch population that severe punishment awaits those persons giving shelter to Jews. Thirteen Jews were arrested together with the non-Jews who gave them refuge, it was reported.
The Dutch Nazi press reaching here today carries heated articles attacking a music critic named Wilem Mirandolle for having published a book in which he comments favorably on such Jewish composers as Felix Mendelsohn and Max Orbio de Castro, well known in the Netherlands prior to the Nazi invasion. “Such a book, breathing of love for the Jews, should not appear in 1943,” one paper comments bitterly.
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