New restrictions on Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland are reported by the Warschauer Zeitung, Nazi organ in Warsaw.
Jews have been forbidden to travel on the auto busses which the German post-office administration operates between towns. Jews had been previously prohibited from traveling on railway trains.
The police chief in Poznan ordered removal of signs in Polish and Yiddish from buildings and business enterprises by May 15, “in order that the city’s streets should look German,”
Meanwhile, leaders of the exiled Polish Government were reported to have revived the question of large-scale Jewish emigration from a restored Poland and are seeking negotiations on the subject with Jewish leaders in London and New York. Jewish leaders have refused so far to enter into such negotiations on the ground that Jews are entitled to equality and reject any idea of forced “evacuation.” The organs of the federations of Polish Jews in France and Belgium publish articles attacking the emigration demand.
The Association of Jewish War Veterans of Poland has issued a declaration expressing faith in the Government’s promise of equal rights in a restored Poland and pledging loyalty to the Government. The Nazi occupation of Poland has stricken the Jews both as Jews and as citizens, the declaration said, and the Polish Jews will not spare their property or blood in fighting for a Poland free of racial and religious discrimination.
The Nazi authorities in Cracow, it was learned today, have named Prof. Marek Biberstein as “Oberjude” of the city, or president of the Cracow Jewish Community. Prof, Biberstein, formerly a teacher of Jewish religion in a Cracow school, is also the Jewish member of a mixed committee entrusted with the distribution of American Red Cross relief. As “Oberjude,” he is now responsible directly to the Nazi authorities for all Jewish affairs. Other Jewish Community officers named by the Nazis include Dr. William Goldblatt, vice-president, and Engineer Bernhard Willer.
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