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Croatian Jewish Leaders Taken to Concentration Camps in Germany

June 20, 1943
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Dr. E. Cohn, president of the Jewish community of Zagreb, capital of the Nazi puppet state of Croatia, who was recently deported to an unknown destination, is now in a concentration camp “somewhere in Germany” it was reported here today.

Together with him are all the members of the Jewish Community Council of Zagreb whose arrest followed the deportation of Dr. Cohn. The Jews of Zagreb, approximately 8,000 men, women and children, are being held in special camps in Croatia, the report said.

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