A camp for Jews who escaped from France into Switzerland, by crossing Lake Geneva on fishing boats, will be erected in the vicinity of Geneva, according to a decision made known here last night by the Swiss authorities. The refugees will be held in the camp until their status is clarified.
The Tribune de Geneva today publishes an eye-witness story of the Jewish deportations from France as told by a Swiss citizen who just returned from the unoccupied zone. “In a small village,” the eye-witness said, “a local doctor pointed, at the railroad station, to a number of cattle cars and put his finger to his lips. The cars formed part of a trainload of Jews seized by the police. I could hear sobs as I read this inscription: ‘Material for the Wehrmacht; whoever seeks to open this car will be shot.’ In Toulouse every one is talking of the pastoral letter issued by Mgr. Saliege, the courageous Archbishop. All my friends have four or five copies in their pockets, and they see to it that it is circulated.”
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