Persecution in Nazi Poland Intensified; New Arrests Reported

Reports reaching Paris tell of new measures against Jews in German-occupied Poland.

The Berlin correspondent of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra reported that the Nazi had started a parachutists’ school on the Lublin airfield and had ordered all Jews in the vicinity to leave. Jews were also ordered expelled from several villages near Lublin in order to prevent them from watching the training of the parachutists, it was said.

The German newspaper Hamburger Fremdenblatt reported from Lodz, which has been renamed Litzmannstadt, that the ghetto there was closed and that the Jews had virtually no contact with the outside world.

“When Jews in the ghetto wish to secure food delivered from the outside they must pay the value by exchanging other commodities,” the paper said. “The exchange is conducted through special Nazi officials so that the Jews should have no direct contact with the outside world.”

“When Jews in the ghetto wish to secure food delivered from the outside they must pay the value by exchanging other commodities,” the paper said. “The exchange is conducted through special Nazi officials so that the Jews should have no direct contact with the outside world.”

Official Polish circles in Paris said that after a visit of Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo, to Poland, a new wave of terrorism was raging in Warsaw and other cities. People were being arrested en masse, without any reason being given, it was said. Women were being seized on the streets and none knew whither they had disappeared.

A Polish Jew who reached Paris from Lwow, in Soviet-occupied Poland, said that life in Galicia was becoming more or less normal. The acute food shortage is over and the population no longer suffers starvation. However, the Soviet authorities insist that all those born on Polish territory now held by the Nazis return to these places or proceed to the Soviet interior.