Evening star., 1942-12-21
Poland Is Nazi Center
For Numbering Jews,
Allied Group Charges
Dr.. Wise's Estimates on
Anti-Semitie Activity
Repeated by Committee
py the Associated prexs

LONDON, Dec. 2I.--The Inter-
Allied Information Committee de-
clared yesterday that the Germans
have transformed Poland into one
vast center for numbering Jews" by
mass shootings. electrocutions and
lethsl gas poisoning. and that 90 per
cent of the Jews who lived In Yugo-
siavia or took refuge there are dead.
The statement by the committee,
which represents the Allied gov
ernments In London, gave a country
by-country resume of Na1 measures
against Jews in occupied lands. The
Allied governments recently pro-
tested against crimes against the
jews and warned that those respon-
sible would be punished.
The committees statement re-
peated the estimate by DR.. Stephen
S. Wise, American Jewish Congress
president, that since 1899 2.000, 900
Jews in Europe have been deported
or have perished and another 5,0o0.-
600 are in danger of determination.
The committee said its statement
presented only "a summary of evi-
derce" OF wholesale measures of ex-
termination OF Jews.
Conditions In Warsaw.
In Warsaw, it said. 500, 900 Jews
were crowded into one ghetto and
their ranks reduced by starvation
and disease and shootings until "in
March, 1912, more direct methods of
annihilation were instituted. -
"Deportations Of the Jewish pop
ulation from the ghetto were be-
gun on August 18th. @s.
Actual data concerning the fate
OF the deportees is not at hand. but
the news is available-irrefutab
news--that places of execution have
been organized at Chelm and Belzec.
where those who survive shootings
are murdered en- masse by means of
electrocution and lethal gas.
The Germans have, in fact,
transformed Poland into one vast
center for numbering Jews, not only
those of Polish nationality, but those
OF other European nationaiities
also"
Before the German attack on
Yugoslavia, the statement con-
tinued, Yugoslav Jewry numbered
about 10000 persons, and more than
5000 others had fed there from
German-occupied countries. These
Jews, II added, had lived at peace
with the other people of the Jugo-
slav nation, but after the invasio-.
fell under the fate Of 'extermina-
ton"
"A majority-99 per cent-of the
Yugoslav Jews, and those who had
taken refuge In Yugoslavia, are now
dead. About 1000 have remained
alive, though almost all have to live
under conditions of internment, and
their lives are In imminent danger
Other Nations Cited.
The committee gave this picture
OF other countries:
Belgium - increasingly stringent
anti-Jewish measures, with forced
labor regardless of health, and mass
deportations of Jews to Poland and
other places until German news
paper estimated that $4,000 OF "the
$4,000 Jews (by German estimate)
living in Belgium In 194l have been
accounted for in this way up to the
end of November, ia42."
zechoslovakia--Of about 95. 900
Jews in Slovakia at the time of the
German occupation, 6s,e00 have
been deported to Polish ghettos up
to the end of last October; Jews
have been deprived OF property,
children separated from their par
ents, bans placed on their use of
public facilities and shops
France-Tn roundup in July,
Jews were dragged from their homes
and hospitals In Paris, regardless of
their condition, and thrown into
filthy camps. Ten thousand "for-
eign" Jews In former unoccupied
France had been deported to Ger
many by the end OF last September.
Conditions In Greece.
Greece--Last August the Germans
rounded up 5000 Jewish men in
Salonika, those between Is and 40
years old, and intended to deport
them to Crete ghettos until the
Greek Orthodox Church warned the
Greek people to stage "a general
uprising" II the plan were carried
out. Instead, 5000 Jews were sent
to forced labor concentration camps.
Luxembourg-Due to efforts of
the Jewish relief organizations,
more than 1000 Jews succeeded in
leaving Luxembourg after the oc-
cupation. but those remaining have
been hquidated by deportations.
Netherlands-Here about 10000
Jews lived, but 'it is the avowed in
tention of the Germans to see to it
that by the end of l943 there won't
be a single Jew left in the Neither
lands"
Norway-jews have been beaten
up and their property taken by
bands of Quisling storm troopers:
all Jews in Oslo have been arrested.
and about 1000 were placed on one
ship believed headed for Poland.