A warning to the world that the entire Jewish population of the Saar will be placed in a concentration camp established at Neunkirchen, Northeast of Saarbruecken, by the Nazi government, was issued in an appeal here today by the Association to Help the Saar Victims, formed by leading personalities and scientists of France and headed by M. Andre Fribourg, a member of the French parliament.
“Though the formation of such a camp is contradictory to the agreement between the League of Nations and Germany, the first inmates of this camp will include, among others, a hundred Catholic clergymen and some Jews, the appeal states.
PERSONALITIES ON COMMITTEE
The Association, in whose name the appeal was issued, includes on its committee sixteen French Senators and twenty Deputies. The Association has undertaken to care, among others, for the Jewish refugees from the Saar, whom the committee estimates at about 6,000 persons.
“It is not astonishing, “the appeal continues, “that the fear-stricken population of the Saar district, especially the Jews, contemplate to leave home, house and fatherland in order to escape from revenge, imprisonment, scenes of terror within the concentration camp and perhaps even from death. But where shall they go? It is
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