Articles welcoming the return to Sweden of thirty Swedish Jews from Germany who were told that their Swedish citizenship would no longer serve as protection for them, are published today in the press here which also reports that more Swedish Jews are en route to Sweden from France and Nazioccupied Holland.
“Swedish Jews,” the newspaper Nya Daglight Allehanda writes, “threatened with deportation and by the Star of David are now returning here. It is hoped that they will feel that they have returned to a people who are still able to judge them on what they are, irrespective of race.”
Other Swedish newspapers point out that the return of the Jews to Sweden should make Swedes feel proud of the part they play as the last outpost for people in despair in Nazi Europe. They report that under Nazi pressure, the authorities in France have deported Jewish wives of Swedish non-Jews working in Swedish enterprises in Paris and other French cities. The Jewish women were informed that if they did not leave for Sweden before April 1. they would have to wear a yellow Mogen David and become subject to deportation to occupied territory in the east.
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