Information reaching Polish Government circles here today reveals that the Nazi authorities have ordered the Jewish Council in the Warsaw ghetto to deliver “at once” 20,000 qualified Jewish workers, either men or women, in order to meet the urgent need for 50,000 tailors, weavers and carpenters to work on army orders in occupied Poland.
Simultaneously, the Belgian Government here reported today that a transport of 10,000 Belgian Jews deported by the Nazis to Poland has reached the city of Lodz where the deportees were isolated in special ghetto barracks and set to work manufacturing German army uniforms.
The report issued by the Belgian Government-in-Exile adds that it seems that all Belgian Jews of Polish origin who were deported several months ago from the city of Antwerp to Nazi-held Poland have now been concentrated in the Lodz ghetto where they are forced to do artisan’s work for Nazi enterprises filling orders for the German army.
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