Many Jews in Warsaw, fearing pogroms, are fleeing to the projected Jewish “reservation” in the Lublin district under the impression that at least safety awaits them there, according to authentic information received here from the Polish capital.
The fear of excesses was aroused, it was said, by Nazi incitement of the Polish population to violence. Nazi agitators were reported to be using the food shortage to agitate against the Jews, blaming alleged Jewish food hoarding for the shortage.
Polish labor groups were combating the anti-Jewish propaganda with pro-Jewish and anti-Nazi propaganda, it was said, but were not able to check the mounting incitement against Jews. Fearing excesses and already having lost their homes and stores through Nazi expropriation, many Jews were seeking safety by moving to Lublin.
Although Polish Government circles here are pleased with opposition of Jews in America and elsewhere to the “reservation” project, the Government itself has so far taken no stand on the plan, which is regarded as nothing more than a maneuver to incite Poles against Jews, it was said. “We do not even know as yet what the so-called frontiers of this Jewish reservation are,” Polish quarters said.
The Lublin district is able to provide agricultural projects for all its inhabitants, so that while in other sections of Poland, especially Warsaw, eventual hunger is unavoidable, this may not be the case in the Lublin area.
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