Of the 1,200 Jews from Stettin in the Old Reich who were recently expelled to Lublin, 232 have died up to March 12, it was reported today. Seventy-two died in the course of a 14-hour enforced march through the snow on a bitterly cold day.
A 14-year-old girl named Hammerstein had to have both her feet amputated after the experience. The girl had not been a resident of Stettin, but was among those exiled because she happened to be visiting relatives in Stettin on the day when the Gestapo rounded up all the Jews of the town.
Another 160 Jews are scheduled to be expelled to Lublin from the town of Schneidemuhl in East Prussia, according to reports from Berlin reaching Paris indirectly. They were all evicted from their homes on March 12 and forbidden to take along any of their belongings.
The Warschauer Zeitung, Nazi newspaper in Warsaw, in its issue of March 12 reports a wave of epidemics, chiefly typhoid, raging in Nazi-occupied Polish towns.
The paper also publishes a Government order prohibiting Jewish physicians from treating non-Jewish patients and Polish doctors from treating Jews. “This order is necessary in order that epidemics should not be spread from Jews to non-Jews,” the paper states.
The Cracow Nazi newspaper, Goniec Krakowski, reports how Germans are profiting from the law forbidding Jews to travel on trains. Jews are obliged to pay Germans huge sums to transport them by automobile from one city to another. The paper carries many advertisements such as the following: “Am driving to Warsaw and willing to take passengers in my automobile.”
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