German troops have occupied the Polish city of Suwalki, which is situated between East Prussia and Lithuania and whose population is largely Jewish.
Advices from Suwalki said today that the Jewish population, dreading Nazi rule, tried to escape with the retiring Russian troops. The city is just inside the Nazi area under the new German-Soviet partition of Poland.
Meetings throughout White Russia and Polish Ukraine yesterday proclaimed liquidation of the Zionist movement and the Bund, Jewish Socialist party, it was learned here today.
The Wilno radio station is continuing broadcasts addressed to Jews, describing the favorable treatment of Jews under Russian rule.
Jewish novelists in Moscow have dispatched a delegation to White Russia and the Ukraine to organize Jewish cultural activities. The delegation, headed by Perez Malkish and DAVID BERGELSON, has arrived in Wilno.
The material position of the Jews in the occupied territories is reported acute, with most of them jobless and suffering from a shortage of food.
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