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Nazis Renew Drive on Polish Jews, Ousting Hundreds; 1,000 Seized for Deportation

June 28, 1939
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Berlin advices said today that mass deportation of Polish Jews has been resumed by the Nazi authorities, with hundreds, including aged and children, already thrust across the Polish border and an estimated 1,000 under arrest and scheduled for expulsion today.

A group of 140 of the deportees, among them infants, are wandering in a wooded portion of the no-man’s -land near Zbonszyn, Polish frontier station. Forty of them have three times been driven back and forth across the border. An 80-year-old Jew died of the sufferings to which he was subjected.

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