More than 500 people, the majority of them Jews, have been sentenced to death or confined in special concentration camps by the Nazi military courts in Odessa since February, it is reported today in the “Krasni Flot,” official organ of the Soviet Navy. They were all charged with anti-Nazi terror and sabotage.
The paper also reports that several thousand Jews, “mostly women, children and aged,” have been deported during the same period from Odessa to the concentration camp in Berezowka, ninety kilometres from the city. In Kiev, the Nazi authorities barred Jewish students from the Medical Institute there, while in Lwow the Jews were barred from the Technical School despite the acute shortage of technicians.
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