Rumanian newspapers reaching here today report that the authorities throughout Rumania have received orders to start hunting for Jews who have escaped deportation from Bessarabia and Bukovina and are allegedly hiding in the ruins of villages destroyed by the war.
Legal advertisements carried by Argus, a financial newspaper published in Bucharest, reveal that wholesale deportations of Jews recently took place in the districts of Campolung, Radauti, Suceava and Dorohoi. The paper announces public auctions of property left by Jews in these districts “as a result of well-known events.” The announcement points out that the auctions are necessary “because of the danger of deterioration of good essential for Rumania’s national economy.” Payments at these auctions will be accepted in cash only, the paper warns.
An order published by the Rumanian Governor General of Bessarabia in the Bucharest newspaper Curentul, reveals widespread looting of Jewish property in Bessarabia. The order instructs the local authorities “to take steps for the identification and collection of all movable Jewish property which has passed into the possession of the state, but is still retained by individuals.”
The Bukarester Tageblatt, Nazi paper published in the Rumanian capital, reports that 1,430 lawyers have been struck off the register as “non-Aryans” and are no longer permitted to practice law in Rumania.
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