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Nazis Restrict Railway Travel by Polish Jews

March 28, 1941
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Hans Frank, Nazi Governor-General in Poland, has issued a decree restricting railway travel by Jews, according to the Krakauer Zeitung.

Beginning April 1, Jews are not permitted to use any kind of inter-urban transportation facility without special permission, which must be renewed for each journey. Permission will be given only to travel third and fourth-class, and in slow trains, not expresses. The question of travel within town boundaries is left to the discretion of local Nazi commandants.

An order issued by the authorities in the Lublin district provides that all Jews who have no employment must report once a week to Nazi offices. Those who cannot prove that they have chances to find early employment will be sent to labor camps. The order has caused panic among the Jewish population since most of the Jews in the Lublin district have no employment.

Acting upon orders of the Nazi authorities in Warsaw, Ing. Cherniakov, president of the Warsaw Jewish community has issued instructions that all signs in the ghetto must be printed in the Yiddish and Polish letters. He also sent a circular letter to all Jewish institutions in the ghetto informing them that the four official languages for the ghetto are German, Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish. All orders of the Warsaw Jewish community must be printed in these four languages.

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