A new wave of anti-Jewish terror has been started by the Nazis in Lublin and Zyrardow, according to reports reaching Polish circles here today.
The reports describe how Nazi soldiers surrounded the Jewish streets in Lublin and in Zyrardow and ordered thousands of Jewish families to leave their homes. The victims were not permitted to take anything out of their dwellings. They were then crowded into military trucks and brought to the railway stations where they were herded into cattle trains and transported to smaller towns and villages.
Of the Jews expelled from Zyrardow, some 1,500 were brought to Warsaw. There, the reports state, the women and children were sent to a public bath and ordered to remain undressed for hours with Nazi soldiers poking fun at them. The men were similarly led to a public bath where they were beaten and flogged by Nazis. All of them were later housed in the Warsaw ghetto in a house on Leszno street.
The movable property which the victims left behind in their homes in Lublin and Zyrardow was expropriated and carried away into the interior of the Reich by military trucks, the reports add.
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