Slovak Jews faced with the constant threat of deportation to Nazi-held Eastern European territories or incarceration in labor camps are attempting to flee to Hungary, it is revealed in the Donau Zeitung, reaching here today. The Nazi newspaper adds that action may be taken by the Hungarian authorities against those Jews who succeeded in crossing the border.
At the same time the Nazi press, received here today, is forced to admit the widespread opposition and disgust manifested by the Slovak population towards the anti-Jewish activities of Sano Mach, Slovakian Minister of Interior, although it condemns this attitude. Since March 25, the Nazi newspapers disclose, at least 1,000 Jews have been sent to labor camps every day. Slovaks who have indicated their sympathy with the Jews have been sent to the Ilava concentration ?. The Grenzbote, organ of the Slovakian Volksdeutsche, reports that three district chiefs have been dismissed and will be prosecuted for failure to obey Mach’s anti-Jewish orders.
It was learned here today that on the eve of Passover the deportations of Jews from Slovakia assumed a mass character and were coupled with confiscation of even the bare necessities in the possession of Jews. In some towns even the Passover matzohs and foods were taken from Jewish houses by marauding bands of Hlinka Guards, the Slovak storm-troopers. In the town of Sillien about 200 pounds of matzohs which the Jews of the community had succeeded in baking despite the rigid rationing of flour, were seized.
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