More than 8,000 Jews in the Rumanian part of Transylvania living in small towns and villages have been sent to the Hatzeg internment camp, a report reaching here today from Bucharest states.
The deportees have been deprived of all their belongings and in many cases left even without clothes. They are forced to provide their own food. About 500 Bucharest Jews were also interned last week by the Rumanian authorities in Camp Jeustendil, while sixty Jewish families from Germany who had been residing in Rumania for several years have been deported to Transnistria, the report says.
The Nazi newspaper Donau Zeitung reaching here today reports that the Jews in Rumania met the payment of 400,000,000 lei demanded by the Rumanian authorities as second installment of the four billion lei ” special Jewish tax” imposed upon the Jewish population. The Rumanian government notified the Jewish leaders in Bucharest that if this second installment was not paid by August 12, all Jewish tax-payers and their families would be deported to Transnistria.
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