Fifty airplanes which were to have been used to evacuate Jews from the Banka-Bystrica region in Slovakia where the partisans are operating were destroyed by pro-German Slovaks, the Nazi-controlled Bratislava radio reports.
The puppet broadcaster alleged that the Jews are stranded in mountainous country, inside dense forests, from which it will be impossible for them to escape. He said that snow has already fallen in these regions and that the Jews cannot hold out much longer.
The Sofia radio today broadcast a statement by a Free Hungarian Committee in Bulgaria pledging that the re-establishment of Jewish rights will be one of the first measures taken after the Germans are driven from the country. Those guilty of anti-Jewish acts will be punished, the statement said, but it expressed the belief that most Hungarians are opposed to the anti-Jewish policy of the present Nazi-dominated regime.
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