Only 5,000 Jews have been found in liberated Slovakia, where 90,000 lived before the war, the Slovak Liberation station said today. One thousand are in Bratislava, 500 in Kosice, 300 in Presov, 300 in Mijulas, 200 in Humenne, and smaller numbers in other cities.
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