The Nazi authorities in Poland have completed Summer plans according to which 1,000,000 Jews–half of the entire Jewish population there–will be drafted for forced labor, it was reported here today.
The report states that labor camps are being built in various parts of the Government-General. Jews will be used for widening of the river Vistula, cutting of lumber in the Polish timber regions, coal mining and stone breaking. Every Jewish community in Nazi-held Poland will have to provide a number of Jews.
The same report reveals tragedies of separated Jewish families in Nazi-Poland resulting from the expulsion orders in various Polish towns. In many towns, the report states, Jewish parents are being torn away from their children. This is especially the case in towns where the local Nazi authorities have ordered that Jews who are necessary for local work must remain while their children over the age of 14 must leave. Appeals to the Nazi commissars to permit the parents to follow their children into exile meet with no success. Similarly, the commissars refuse to permit the parents even to visit their children and reject all applications for travel permits necessary when traveling from one town to another.
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