With the mass-deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto reported to be almost completed, the Nazis have now started large-scale deportations of Jews from the ghetto of Lwow, capital of Eastern Galicia, according to reliable information from occupied Poland reaching here today. The ghetto in Lwow will soon become completely “Judenrein,” the reports predict.
Several travelers arriving here from Poland declare that the protests by the democratic world against the Nazi annihilation of Jews have had no effect. They confirm the reports of the mass-killing and mass-deportations of Jews and they add that the Jews in Poland are losing the hope of surviving until the country is liberated from the Nazis. Unaware of the activities on their behalf, Polish Jews are under the impression that the Jews in the Allied countries have taken a “passive attitude” towards the barbarities inflicted upon them by the Nazis. They are afraid that they will be exterminated before the war is over.
Aggravating the situation of the starving Jews in the ghettos is an order just issued by the Portuguese authorities prohibiting the sending of food parcels from Portugal to German-occupied countries and no parcels of any kind to persons living in the Jewish ghettos in Poland. The measure was apparently taken after it had been established that many thousands of Jews in the ghettos have been deported from the ghettos to “unknown destinations” so that the parcels no longer reach them.
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