It was learned here today that hundreds of Jews have recently arrived in Warsaw after escaping from Lodz, where Nazi persecution is reportedly assuming more brutal forms daily.
Although the Jews in Lodz have been forbidden to leave the city, many escape at night on sledges and wander for days along less frequented roads until they succeed in crossing the frontier of the Government-General.
The Nazis have introduced special hours during which Jews in Lodz are allowed to leave the ghetto. These hours are between eight and nine in the morning and twelve and one in the afternoon.
The overcrowded ghetto is subjected to nightly raids by the Nazis who carry off all valuables from Jewish houses. A number of Jewish women are reported to have been brutally beaten by German soldiers for not getting off the sidewalk at their approach.
Gestapo officials stopped a train at Dulowa, near the border of the Government-General and the Reich, ejected all the Jewish passengers and later went among them collecting donations for the Nazi Winter Relief in boxes formerly used for Jewish National Fund collections.
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