Jews in Rumania have been thrown into panic by a new order issued this week which instructs all Jews residing in villages and in small towns to move “voluntarily” into the district capitals and report to the authorities there immediately upon arrival.
The order specifies that the “voluntary moving” must be completed by August 1, Jews affected by this order fear that they will all be deported from the district capitals to Transnistria, since these cities are overpopulated, and especially because of the fact that the Rumanian authorities do not permit newcomers to establish themselves in the larger cities unless they can prove that their residence there is essential to the interests of the community.
The Rumanian press reaching here today reports that all Rumanian Jews who are still residing in Germany or in any of the German-occupied territories will soon be deported by the Nazi authorities to Transnistria in accordance with an arrangement reached between the German and Rumanian authorities.
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