6,000,000 KILLED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25300, 6 September 1945, Page 6

6,000,000 KILLED

GERMAN TOLL OF JEWS PLANS FOR SURVIVORS (Reed. "0.35 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 4 . The Germans during the war killed 6,000,00 Jews, said Mr Eliahu Dobkin, head of the Jewish agency's immigration department, on his return to Jerusalem from Central Europe. He added that the number of Jews left in Europe was approximately 1,600,000. Most of the surviving Jews desired to emigrate to Palestine and the agency planned to send six groups of six men or"'i to help the Jews in German camps. | The military authorities and Unrra have already agreed to this principle. It is planned to erect a monument oil the summit of Mount Scopus to commemorate the Jews who died. It would bear the names of all 6.000,000, includ- j ing the soldiers, partisans and ghetto ; fighters. All Jewish cultural documents j and religious objects left in Central and j Eastern Europe are to be collected in j Palestine. I Two German women S.S. guards cap-i tured today admitted that at the j notorious Ravensbruck concentration j camp near Berlin women were shorn, like sheep to supply hair for the Ger- j man war industry. They admitted that | 200,000 women and children, mostly Jewesses, were killed at Ravensbruck. The women were periodically_ herded into a shearing room, where their heads were cropped. As soon as new hair grew they were returned to tho shearing room.