Polish police have begun expulsions of Czech Jewish refugees into the German protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia, according to reports reaching Jewish relief organizations from Kattowice today, apparently in reprisal for the Reich’s deportation of Jews to Poland.
Forty of the estimated 800 Czech Jewish refugees were driven by Polish police last night from Krakow to the Reich frontier and forced into Czech territory. The remainder of those in Krakow took a collective oath to commit suicide if they were deported into Nazi-controlled territory. The authorities ordered the Jewish Relief Committee in Krakow under no circumstances to feed and shelter new refugees from former Czechoslovakia. In Kattowice, police today started a hunt in the streets for Czech Jewish refugees as a preliminary to expulsion.
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