The whereabouts of approximately 900 Jews who were rounded up by the Nazis in Paris and deported to Poland was disclosed in a report reaching here today from Germany stating that thousands of Jews deported from Nazi-held Western European countries are now working in coal mines in Upper Silesia.
The 900 Parisian Jews, the report said, are quartered in the city of Kattovice, the Polish part of Silesia. More than 5,000 Jews deported from various European countries are held in a camp near the Silesian city of Myslowice and are working in the mines. About 2,500 more Jews are held in another camp in the same neighborhood and have also been assigned to work in the mines. About 150 Polish Jews have been sent to work at the local blast furnaces. The local Jewish population was deported from Upper Silesia in 1939.
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