Fifteen more Jews have been executed in Warsaw for leaving the ghetto there without permission, the Nazi newspaper Warschauer Zeitung, reaching here today, reports. This brings to 27 the known total of Jews executed in Poland on charges of leaving the ghetto. Eight were executed some time ago in Warsaw and four in Czenstochowa.
Details of the Czenstochowa executions were also received here today. The report reveals that the Jews, including one woman, were tried by a Nazi court presided over by a Gestapo officer. They were not allowed to offer any defense. Two of the Jews refused to make any statement during the trial, while the Jewish woman explained that she had gone to visit her child in a neighboring village. The prosecution, however, maintained that the four had left the ghetto to spread inciting anti-Nazi propaganda among the local population.
In accordance with official German policy toward Jews in Poland the four defendants were all executed by hanging. The men were forced to look on while the Jewish woman was hanged first.
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