Eighteen Jews were killed and more than 200 wounded in a pogrom on March 8 in the Baluti ghetto of Lodz, Nazi Poland, it was learned here today.
Many suicides among Lodz Jews were also reported. They include the well-known physician Reitler-Kurianska and the businessman Henryk Librach, of the firm of Librach and Kalewski.
Special “Jew money” is about to be introduced in the Lodz ghetto, it was reported, with the money having no value outside the Jewish quarter. The aim of the measure was said to be to prevent Jews from trying to purchase supplies outside of the ghetto.
Gestapo agents in Warsaw were reported to have shot dead a Jewish merchant name Lipstadt because he refused to obey their order to remove the seals from his sealed shop at 5 Bango street.
The lawyer Leon Berenson, who figured in the famous Przytyk pogrom trials in 1956 and other notable cases, has been arrested and deported to an unknown destination.
The first transport of young Jews, aged 18 to 25, who have been conscripted for Reich labor projects, have left Warsaw for Posen.
No mail is being delivered to Jews in the Lodz Baluti quarter. Many letters addressed to Baluti residents have been returned with the notation “letter undelivered because of danger of epidemics.” An order has been issued in Warsaw prohibiting Jews to patronize Polish cafes.
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