Eighteen thousand Slovakian Jews, all that remain of the country’s Jewish population of 95,000, are being rounded up and sent to internment camps, according to a broadcast on the German radio today, which quoted the Slovakian Hlinka Guard newspaper Gardista as its source.
It is reported here that the 18,000 include 3,000 Jews who had been spared up until now because they were classified as “economically indispensable” and also 5,000 baptized Jews.
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