Evening star., 1941-10-28
Complete Banishmen1
OF Jews in Europe
Appears Nazi Policy
Further Removals From
Bohemiu-Moruvio Cities
And Villages Forecast
By LOUIS P. LOCHNER.

ASSOCIATED PTeSS war correspondents.
BERLIN, Oct. %. Complete
elimination of Jews from European
life now appears to be fixed German
policy.
Such a development is indicated
by the press echo to the letter last
Saturday of Marshal Ion Antonescu,
Rumanian chief of state, disclosing
banishment of Jews by Rumanian
authorities to ghettos in the
Ukraine and the words of Adolf Hit
Ter before the Reichstag on January
l. 1899.
You speak of tragedy and make
an appeal in favor of the Jews
Antonescu said in reply to protest
from Rumanian Jewish committees
Il understand your grief. You
should have promptly understood
the grief of the entire Rumanian
nation. Consider that we have paid
with our blood for the hate of your
fellow believers in Bessarabia,
Odessa and Marascow.
In his 1889 speech-months before
the outbreak of war-Hitler said:
IF international finance and JeWry
within and outside Europe should
succeed once more in plunging the
peoples into World War the result
will be not the BolSheviza ton of
Europe and thereby victory of Jewry
but annihilation of the Jewish race
in Europe
Further Removals Seen.
Only Sunday the well-informed
Krakow newspaper, Krakauser Zie-
tung. perdicted Jews soon would be
removed from the cities and villages
of the German protectorate of Bo-
hemia- -Moravia.
The German press holds that
Jews are getting just what they de-
serve in Rumania. Crotia's new law
forbidding Jewish-Aryan marriages
also is greeted with approval.
Several times each week trans
ports now start eastward with Jews
from the Rhineland and Westphalia,
Berlin, Prague or Vienna.
The depOrteeS are given several
days warning that they must give
up their apartments. Thereafter at
any hour of the day or night they
may expect the Gestapo or regular
police to call for them. Their homes,
with all inventory, are sealed and
declared state property.
Taking only articles regarded as
essential for personal use, they ar
rive at synagogues converted into
refugee transit camps.
Garry Little Money.
According to Jewish sources-off-
cial confirmation of these details is
unavailable-some refugees are OBJ
lged to leave behind wedding rings,
watches, fountain pens and shaving
outfits. Most Jews are said to bring
100 marks (about S4O with them
Some Jews said that 80 of these
marks were required for transporta-
ton costs SO that they would ar
rive at their destinations with only
10 marks tor about S4J.
So far as can be learned the up
rooted Jews are classified as Grim
inals," social elements" and own
ers of catastrophe apartments"
The latter means apartments suit
able for Aryan refugees from cities
subject to bombings.
The first two types are sent to
the government general (unan-
neXed) area of Poland, chiefly to
Litzmannstadt, though some Jews
also are being banished to Riga, oc-
cupied capital of Latvia, and Minsk,
in occupied Russia.
Opportunity for Negotiation.
In the case of Jews whose apart
ments are wanted there seems to be
some temporary opportunity for
negotiation.
Jews report that some of their
co-religionists before starting east
ward sign statements acknowledging
themselves to be enemies of the
German state. In such cases their
property is forfeited.
Others repeatedly sign statements
renouncing pensions. old-age pay
ments and their personal property.
Many suicides are spoken Of in
Jewish circles.