All Jewish restaurants throughout Slovakia were closed down by the police on the day before Passover and their staffs were sent to labor camps, according to reliable information reaching here today from Bratislava.
On the same day an order was issued by Sano Mach, Slovakian Minister of Interior, dissolving 60 Jewish community boards. The order, which entered into effect immediately, provides that only one Jewish community council will be permitted to function in Slovakia.
Severe punishment for Slovaks attempting to “interfere” with the expulsion of Jews is provided in another order issued this week by Sano Mach. In the meantime, the deportation of Slovak Jews into Nazi-occupied Galicia as well as the order confiscating the personal belongings of these deportees are resulting in many robberies, with the robbers, who pose as secret service agents, entering Jewish homes to “confiscate” valuables prior to the departure of the victims.
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