Extracts from diaries of Nazi police, published in the Schlesische Zeitung, give a partial picture of how Jews were treated by the German forces of occupation.
The Germans, entering the town of Lask, shot 100 Jews in searching the township. When a Jewish crowd tried to prevent the Germans from entering a synagogue, police used their guns and killed several hundred, razing the synagogue to the ground.
In Sieradz, 35 Jews were executed. In Pabjanice, 9 Jews and young Jewesses were flogged for refusing to salute the Nazi flag. In Radom, 3,600 Jews were arrested and interned in a concentration camp and more than 100 were executed for “resisting” the Nazi police. The diaries said that the task of the police was “facilitated” by many suicides of Jews to avoid arrest.
In the township of Kolo, 216 Jews were publicly flogged and then imprisoned in a concentration camp.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
