JEWS IN EUROPE
ESTIMATED 3,000,000 TOLL
Recd. 6 p.m. New York. Aug. 27 The Jewish population of Europe which was 8,300,000 when Hitler came to power, has been reduced by 5,000,000 as a result of ms war against the Jews. The Institute of Jewish Affairs gives these figures in a long survey. It estimates that more than 3,000,000 Jew* were destroyed bj' planned starvation, forced labour deportations, pogroms, and methodical murders. About 1,800,000 Jews were saved by migration to the Soviet Union.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 204, 30 August 1943, Page 5
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