Six Jewish women and two Jewish men were executed this week in Warsaw for leaving the ghetto there without permission, it is reported in the Nazi newspapers reaching here today from Poland.
The Krakauer Zeitung, chief Nazi organ in Poland, attempts to justify the executions by alleging that “the Jews escape from the ghetto and infect the population outside the ghetto with infectious diseases.” It states that the Lublin ghetto is the cause for the typhoid epidemic now raging in Lublin.
The Gazetka Lwowska, German-dominated paper published in the city of Lwow, today reports that about 4,000 Polish Jews were converted to Catholicism during the months of September and October this year. The Catholic priests who converted the Jews are bitterly attacked by the paper which threatens severe reprisals against the clergymen.
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