The camp here from which several hundred Jews were forcibly removed by American military police earlier this week seems frighteningly like a ghetto during a still unfinished “operation.” The same atmosphere pervades the other camp at Fuerth, to which 100 former residents of the liquidated camp were transferred.
At the first camp, armed military police patrol the already evacuated section, whose darkened buildings are soon to be occupied by Germans. In the still-tenanted section, a man who came out of a lighted house told this correspondent: “I am waiting for a policeman to come and throw me into a truck.”
At the second Fuerth camp to which about 100 of the evacuees, mainly the ill and pregnant women, were allowed to move, some luggage, a few sticks of furniture and other personal possessions were strewn around.
It is understood that of the 300 moved to Bamberg, only about 60 could crowd into the converted stables, while the others are temporarily without shelter, pending the transfer of 200 Jews there to another camp.
About 60 persons from the Fuerth camp may be allowed to go to a recently established training farm, as a result of a protest to the AMG authorities by Zvi Horowitz, a representative in Munich of the Central Committee of Chalutzim. After Horowitz told the officer in charge that “the whole affair is anti-Jewish, and you will have to throw these people into trucks,” he agreed to allow UNRRA to decide whether the 60 should be allowed to settle on the farm.
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