Ten thousand Polish Jewish youths will shortly be deported from the Government-General of Poland to East Prussia for forced labor, it was learned here today.
Jews aged 18 to 25 have been summoned to Jewish Community offices in Nazi Poland and have been instructed by Nazi officials to make themselves ready for service in the camps.
Before the Jews are transported to East Prussia, it is understood they will be concentrated in Mlava and vicinity, close to the East Prussian border.
In some instances, it was learned, Jewish youths were ordered to gather in certain places with full equipment for labor service, including boots, underwear and blankets. When they appeared, the equipment was taken from them and they were ordered to return to their homes.
Polish intellectual circles in Cracow were reported indignant at Nazi methods of encouraging anti-Jewish excesses by Poles recruited for “voluntary agricultural work” in Germany. The recruits, billeted in the Wonska Street barracks in Cracow, were ordered by the Nazis to behave “as in the good old times” and to beat up Jews on the streets. Maltreatment of Jews by the labor recruits has now become a daily occurrence in Cracow, it was reported here.
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