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Million Jews Trapped in Occupied Polish Areas; Many Arrested, Drafted for Labor

September 13, 1939
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Approximately 1,000,000 Jews, many of them women and children, are suffering hunger and persecution in the territories occupied by the German army. Tens of thousands have been evacuated by central Jewish institutions. Warsaw’s Jewish population of 350,000 is actively participating in the firm defense of the Polish capital.

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