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Czech Women Brave Nazi Bullets to Feed Jews

November 27, 1939
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In Nuremberg, he declared, the Jews were formed into groups and transferred under the most horrible conditions to Poland via Bohemia and Cracow. They were destined either for the Lublin “reservation” in Nazi Poland or deportation over the Soviet frontier.

During the trip through Bohemia, a transport of which the escaped Jew was a part stopped at a small town and the prisoners were placed temporarily in a barracks behind barbed were. Czech women came to the barracks, the Jew reported, and supplied the deportees with food despite firing by German soldiers.

Other prisoners beside himself, the refugee said, succeeded in eventually making their escape.

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