Polish official circles reported today that the Nazi authorities have expelled all Jews from the towns of Pabianic and Zdunskavoll near Lodz, “into the interior of Poland,” which is taken to mean the Lublin or Siedlce regions.
In Warsaw, it was said, the Nazi administration has ordered the Chamber of Commerce to prepare lists of “Aryan” and Jewish enterprises, and a special office has been set up with authority to “collaborate” in transferring Jewish enterprises into “Aryan” hands.
Reports from provincial Polish cities said more than 1,000 persons, about alf of them Jews, were burned alive when the town of Visskov was razed by a fire set by Nazis. The remaining inhabitants left the burning town by night, carrying their dead and wounded through woods and marshes, until they crossed the frontier into Soviet Poland.
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