TREATMENT OF JEWS
PROTEST BY UNRRA OFFICIAL
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 6. Dr. Lee Srole, welfare director for UNRRA at the Landsberg Jewish displaced persons' camp, near Munich, has resigned as a protest against con-, ditions under which he alleged the Germans were "coddled" and the Jews neglected. Other allegations included: (1) that Jews were packed into rooms .in which two and three persons were crowded into a single bed; (2) that children were placed in damp cellar's rlready condemned for German prisoners of war; (3) the Army had refused to face the i responsibility of making a haven for the thousands of Jews driven from Poland.
•Dr. Srole described the conditions as outrageous. He added that they threatened epidemics and the deaths of thousands of inmates of the Landsberg camp. Lieutenant-General Walter Bedell Smith, Chief of Staff of the United States Forces in the European theatre, will visit Landsberg to-day to make investigations,
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24743, 7 December 1945, Page 5
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