The arrival of 4,500 Jews deported from Germany to Nazi-occupied Poland was reported today over a Polish underground radio station heard here. The announcer stated that the victims reached Lublin herded in cattle trains which were an route for several days during which no food was provided to the deportees. Most of the Jews come from Frankfurt-am-Main, Leipzig, Dresden, and Vienna, the secret Polish radio reported. They were all thrown into a special camp near Lublin.
Addressing a meeting in Vientna, Dr. Greiser, the Nazi commissar for the annexed part of Poland which the Germans have named Warthegau, claimed that despite the continue deportation of Jews from the Warthegau, which is in the western part of Poland, there are still 150,000 Jews living there. Greiser, according to Vienna newspapers reaching here today, admitted that the “Germanization” of the Warthegau, which includes the Jewish-populated city of Lodz, is going at a much slower pace than originally contemplated.
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