A special train crowded with Jews deported from the province of Limbourg in Belgium loft during the week-end for the Nazi-occupied Ukraine, according to information reaching the Belgian Government here today.
Trains crowded with deported Jews have also departed from Liege and Antwerp, the report stated. The deportees were instructed to take along food to last a fort-night.
The Polish Government here today received a report stating that nine Jews were sentenced to death in the city of Piotrokow, Poland, for leaving the ghetto without permission.
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