Three weeks’ notice was given to the Jews in the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate today to emigrate or prepare for expulsion to the Jewish “reservation” in Poland, according to information received in Paris.
(The Essener National Zeitung, a Nazi organ, reported last week that the Jewish population of the Protectorate was 90,147, including 51,178 persons over the age of 40 and 10,142 under 15.)
Polish official sources reported from German frontier points that removal of Jews from the Protectorate to the Lublin and Sosnowiec regions of Poland would begin on Feb. 1 and that each Jew would be permitted to take along a maximum of 3,000 kronen and a few personal belongings, the rest of their property to be confiscated.
The Polish information added that instructions had been issued to local Nazi authorities throughout Bohemia-Moravia “to make life for the Jews so miserable that they will hasten to leave the Protectorate.”
Jews in the Protectorate were subjected to Nazi raids on their homes in which all moveable property was confiscated, the report added.
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