AUSTRIAN CRUELTIES
3500 JEWISH REFUGEES PERISH IN ONE. CAMP. LONDON, Feb. 20. The Austrian concentration camps for Jewish war refugees, who were treated with barbaric cruelty, have at length ', been broken up. The inmates consisted , of old men, women, and children, ' rendered homeless and helpless by the Russian invasion, and whose male relatives were m the Austrian army. In bitterly cold barracks the refugees were forced to hard labor on. starvation rations. At one camp, as a punishment, all women were forced, on a certain occasion! to stand undressed m the cold, and many of them fainted. At Reisenstein an aged Rabbi was commanded to do very hard work, and when liis strength gave out he was tied to a tree for five hours. The commandant of the camp struck an elderly Jewess with a whip becauso sho had I spoken to a, person outside the wire fence. This treatment,, combined with the severe weather and the starvation rations, caused 3943 deaths m one camp of 9000. The dead include 2380 children.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14567, 1 April 1918, Page 4
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