Demonstrations were reported today to have occurred outside of the concentration camp at Toensberg in Norway recently, when relatives of interned Jews were barred from visiting them. The relatives were presumably non-Jews.
The Stockholm newspaper, Nya Dagligt Allehanda, said that descriptions of terrible conditions inside the camp were circulating throughout Norway. Internees were said to be suffering from frostbite and malnutrition, although charged so-called “bearding expenses” in the camp, which is financed by the German-controlled Quisling government with confiscated Jewish funds.
(It was reported in a Norwegian broadcast on the BBC that 60 Jews were in the camp at Toensberg just before Christmas, and that 300 had been sent from the camp to Oslo on Nov. 26 for deportation. Jews still held in Norway are probably those regarded as “part Jews” or “Jews through marriage.”)
Property of 1,253 Norwegian Jews has been confiscated to date, it was reported. More than half of Norway’s estimated 1,300 Jews have been deported. Internees were said to have been given a choice of deportation to Poland, tantamount to a death sentence, or to work outposts on the frozen Arctic front.
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