All unemployed male Jews in the Brussels area, which means most of the male Jewish population in the city, will be sent to forced labor camps, where they will be put to work at clearing rivers, drainage ditches and canals and other flood control work, it was learned today from the Belgian Ministry of Information here.
The German authorities in Brussels have announced that a labor camp for Jewish adult males will be opened at Tervueren, near the city. All male Jews, the Nazis decreed, who are unable to prove that they are engaged in legitimate, constructive work will be dispatched to the camp. It is expected that other camps will be opened shortly.
Since a recent Nazi ukase compelled all Jews to live only in the cities of Brussels, Antwerp, Liege and Charleroi, it is presumed that a majority of those who came to Brussels, as well as Brussels Jews who were dismissed from their jobs under the anti-Jewish laws, are still unemployed, and therefore liable to be sent to the Tervueren camp.
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