A German plan to deport hundreds of thousands of Rumanian Jews to death camps in Poland was thwarted by a high Rumanian official who pigeonholed a deportation order, although it had been approved by Premier Antonescu, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today. The plan was revealed in a document found in the German embassy here…. More ▸
Correspondents of the Moscow press now visiting the liberated area in Poland today reported from Lublin that the Germans have razed to the ground all buildings in the extermination camp of Treblinka, including the gas chambers where tens of thousands of Jews were suffocated to death. The Moscow papers, however, assert that there are people… More ▸
More than 200 Gestapo agents and Ukrainian guards in the “Jewish extermination camp” of Sobibor, in occupied Poland, were killed during a revolt of the Jewish internees organized with the aid of the underground movement, the Polish Government-in-Exile reported today. The revolt, which is the second largest Jewish uprising against the Nazis, surpassed only by… More ▸
Official statistics of the German Railways operating in occupied Poland reveal that 1,071,600 doomed Jews were transported to Treblinka, Belzetz and other “extermination camps” during the year beginning April 1, 1942 and ending March 31, 1943, it was reported here today at a session of the Zionist Actions Committee demoted to the question of rescuing… More ▸
The Jewish community council in Cracow, which acted as the central body for all the Jews in occupied Poland, has been dissolved by the German authorities, it was learned here today. All members of the council, including Dr. Michael Weichert and David Hilfstein who headed the body, have been deported, the report reaching here from… More ▸
A detailed report of the liquidation of the smaller Jewish ghettos in Poland by the Nazis during last May and June was received here today by Dr. Ignacy Schwarzbart, a deputy in the Polish National Council. The report says that the ghettos in Piaski, Komskowole, Siedlice, Lukow and Radzyn were wiped out. In the town… More ▸
Nine of the many concentration camps which have been established by the German occupation authorities in Poland are used solely for Jewish prisoners, while Jews are also confined in three other camps, according to information gathered by a special commission of the Polish Government, which was made public here today. The “Jewish camps” are located… More ▸
