Truckloads of Jews were seen in the streets of Lodz yesterday, being taken out to do manual labor, it was reported today by the Associated Press correspondent with the German army west of Warsaw. “In another section I also saw bearded Jews carrying stones, one by one, to help troops reconstruct dynamited bridges,” he said.
The Silesian town of Lieruszow, which had 6,000 inhabitants, half of them Jews, “looked like the ruins of Pompeii” with the entire town “a series of charred walls,” the correspondent said.
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