Sixty concentration camps in Hungary, established since the German occupation, are rapidly being filled with Jews, according to eye-witness accounts of travellers arriving here from Hungary today. They confirm that deportations of Jews to Poland are proceeding.
Deportations are confined at present to prominent Jewish industrialists, well known members of the Jewish community who have incurred the enmity of pro-Nazi Hungarians, and Jews active in anti-Nazi political parties. Other Jews are being sent to the concentration camps, although it is expected that they, too, will be deported when transportation facilities are available. Among those arrested is Baron Alphone Weiss, a member of the upper house of the Hungarian Parliament.
Lazlo Endre, who was appointed Commissioner for Jewish Affairs last week, is known as a pathological anti-Semites, the travellers say. He has imposed restrictive measures upon the Jews which are more vicious than the usual German Nuremberg laws. At present, he is concentrating on ousting Budapest Jews from their homes to make room for Hungarians and Germans bombed out by Allied air raids.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
