The closing down of Gazeta Zydowska, the only organ of the Jews in Nazi-held Poland, and the execution in Czenstochowa of five more Jews, including a woman, for leaving the ghetto there without permission, are reported here today.
The report states that the Nazi authorities in Poland suspended the publication of the Gazeta Zydowska under the pretext that the information on Jewish life in the ghettos is detrimental to the German interests abroad. The items which this ghetto organ carried, including advertisements, were all published after having been approved by Nazi censorship. The suspension of the Gazeta Zydowska is a blow to the Jews in Poland since the publication was practically the only means of contact between the isolated Jews in various sections of the occupied territory where free traveling is prohibited to people wearing the Mogen David badge.
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