The Luexmbourg radio reported today that the bodies of 1,600 murdered Jews were found by American troops in woods about ten miles from Emich, Residents of Munich, the broadcast said, were taken to the woods and forced to unearth and rebury the bodies.
A Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent in Germany reported today that 1,200 Jewish women, most of them from Hungary, who were being used as slave laborers in a munitions factory in Leipzig, have been liberated by the U. S. Sixty-Ninth Infintry Division near the city of Wurzen. The women were apparently driven from the city by the Germans prior to the fall of Leipzig.
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