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Tartakower’s Lodz Home Wrecked

January 22, 1940
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The home in Lodz, Nazi Poland, of Dr. Arjeh Tartakower, laborite Zionist leader who is now in New York, has been demolished by local Germans by order of the Gestapo, which charged that he was conducting anti-Nazi propaganda in the United States, it was reported here today. Arrests of labor Zionists in Lodz have been resumed.

According to the Nazi newspaper, Thorner Freiheit, Jews and Poles in Lodz are forbidden to use the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool and are prohibited from walking on Pietrokowska Street or in Poniatowski Park. Jews are forbidden even to cross Pietrokowaka Street and must walk by side streets to the end of this avenue in order to get from one part of the city to the other.

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