Information reaching Crechoslovak circles today states that the Germans opened the gates of the fortress ghetto of Theresienstadt on April 12, and ordered the Jewish inmates to disperse throughout the countryside
A report received from Kosice, temporary seat of the Czechoslovak Government, reports that the Czechoslovak National Council has established a department for Jewish affairs headed by Dr. Imriah Rosenberg, formerly vice-chairman of the National Council of Czechoslovak Jews in London. Dr. Rosenberg was also named deputy chief of the central repatriation authority.
The report says that Jews repatriated from Oswiecim disclosed that Jacob Edelstain, head of the Prague Palestine Office, was killed there together with his whole family. Other victims were Otto Zucker, formerly vice-chairman of the Jewish Party in Czechoslovakia, Gisa Fleischman, a well known social worker from Bratislava, and many members of the "Jewish council" which was established at Terezin by the Nazis.
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