Three Jews and one Karaite were hanged by the Nazi authorities in a suburb of Vilna for leaving the Vilna ghetto, according to information reaching the Polish Government here today. The Nazis consider the Karaites to be Jews.
Other reports state that two peasants in Nazi-occupied White Russia were sentenced to ten years imprisonment each for giving shelter for several days to Jews who left their ghettos. In Upper Silesia, gallows have been erected by the Nazis in eighteen towns to frighten the Polish population and the few remaining Jews there, one of the reports received by the Polish Government here revealed.
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