The first group of 1,000 Jews slated for deportation by this Nazi-controlled Free City will be divided into two transports, it was learned today. The first transport will leave Feb. 5. The deportees are to be taken across Germany in a sealed train to Genoa, where they will be put on Greek steamers for an unknown destination, probably in the direction of Shanghai. To cover the costs of the transportation, the Danzig Senate has confiscated the property of the Union of Denzig Synagogues, estimated to be worth 1,000,000 gulden.
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