More than fifty percent of the 16,000 people now held in concentration camps in unoccupied France are Jewish refugees, Howard Kerschner, one of the six members of the American Friends Service Committee who returned this week from Europe on the Swedish steamer Drottingholm, declared here today.
Describing the starvation diet on which they exist, Mr. Kerschner said that the majority of the internees are so weak that they cannot take a walk. “Many of them fall as soon as they take their first few steps,” he said.
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