On April 7. the Nazis order ghettoizing of Jews near railway stations. Each is allowed to take the clothes on their backs. two changes of underwear. a 14day supply of food. and 50 kilos of baggage. All valuables are seized. Thousands are crammed into quarters large enough for hundreds. Life in the ghetto is designed to weaken the victims so that they cannot resist deportation. On April 18. Norbert Masur. a businessman and representative of the World Jewish Congress. writes a letter to Marcus Ehrenpreis. chief rabbi of Stockholm. suggesting that a competent. nonJewish individual be sent to Budapest to direct a rescue campaign for Hungarian Jewry.
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