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Last Minute News Trainloads of Jews Deported from Bulgaria Reach Poland; Sent to “death Camp”

June 6, 1943
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Trainloads of deported Bulgarian Jews have begun to reach Nazi-occupied Poland, the secret Polish radio station SWIT reported today, adding that the trains are directed to the notorious “Jewish concentration camp” at Treblinka where the Nazis have recently installed special “death chambers” in which 700 Jews can be gassed in 45 minutes.

The Polish station also reported that several hundred Polish Jews are executed in the Treblinka camp daily. Ber’ore being driven into the gas chambers, the victims’ heads are shorn and their hair is used by the Nazis for industrial purposes.

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