MASS MURDERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 304, 23 December 1944, Page 5

MASS MURDERS

NAZI ATROCITIES

Great Numbers Of Polish And Hungarian Jews

Rec. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 22. New accounts of German atrocities in Poland, Crete and Hungary have reached London. The Polish Government, through underground .channels, .learns that a further 20,000 Polish Jews have been murdered. One concentration camp which held several thousand men was liquidated, and at another camp only 600 were left alive. A neutral diplomatic representative who was an eye-witness of events in Hungary from the beginning of December until recently says that between March and July of this year 600,000 Jews deported from the provinces were killed in various annihilation camps. Some quarter of a million who remained in Budapest were concentrated in October in a ghetto near the Tabak Gasse synagogue. Except for 14,000 who possessed Palestine certificates or similar protection, by mid-November 100,000 had been deported to Germany and the rest massacred in groups of some hundreds daily. Roughly 150,000 Jews, men and women, were sent to construct defence works in Budapest suburbs and after the works were complete . they disappeared mysteriously: When the diplomat left there were only 75,000 Jews left alive in Budapest, and these were dying of starvation, the Gestapo having wired off the ghetto on the pretext that there was a plague there, and thus prevented any help reaching them.