More than 3,000 Jews have been ordered from the Warsaw ghetto to clear the debris resulting from the destruction of dozens of buildings during the recent bombing of Warsaw by Russian planes, it was announced today over the Nazi radio in Cracow. The Nazi broadcast also announced the execution in Prague of Alexander Bessmertny, brother-in-law… More ▸
The expulsion of the entire Jewish population from the city of Kelish, in occupied Poland, to the ghetto in Ledz is indicated here today in reports from Cracow. According to these reports, the Jews have also been deported from the city of Ternopol, Galicia. A “Jewish train” carrying 600 Jews deported from Belgium, reached Cracow… More ▸
German persecution of Jews in Poland has been intensified as a result of the recent arrival there of deported Dutch and French Jews, the Polish Government was informed today by reliable sources within Poland. All the Jews of the town of Rabka near Cracow were ordered to move to the Warsaw ghetto within twenty-four hours,… More ▸
A new policy of abolishing the small ghettos in Poland and concentrating all the Polish Jews, and those deported to Poland from elsewhere in Europe, in several large ghettos is announced in Nazi papers reaching here from Poland today. The reason given by the Germans for this policy are: firstly, it will enable them to… More ▸
The extent to which epidemics continue to rage in the Warsaw ghetto is reflected in the German newspapers reaching here today, which carry articles expressing sympathy with the Nazi officials who must come into contact with the Jews in the ghetto. The Nazi papers report that commodities transported from the Warsaw ghetto, as well as… More ▸
Two Polish policemen have been executed by the Gestapo in Cracow for befriending Jews confined in the ghetto there, according to information reaching Polish circles here today. The policemen were ordered to accompany Gestapo men who went to the ghetto to seize all available clothing which could be used by the German army. As the… More ▸
A renewed wave of terror against Jews and Poles in Nazi-held Poland was predicted here today as the result of a report in the Nazi newspaper Krakauer Zeitung, which arrived here from Cracow, that Hans Frank, Nazi governor for Poland, has held “an important conference” with all security chiefs and heads of local police forces… More ▸
More than 700,000 Polish Jews – a third of the entire Jewish population – have been massacred by the Nazis in Poland since last summer, it was charged in a detailed report received here today through underground channels by Samuel Zygelbaum, Jewish member of the Polish National Council. Thousands of these victims were killed by… More ▸
Provisional estimates received here today from Nazi-occupied Poland establish that Jewish moveable property valued between $100,000,000 and $120,000,000 has been confiscated by the Nazis in Warsaw and removed to Germany. This includes merchandise, machinery, foodstuff, clothing and other valuables. The Krakiwski Wisti, a Nazi newspaper in the Ukrainian language, which reached here today from Cracow,… More ▸
The Nazi Labor Front, the organization which supervises the labor system in the Reich, has assumed complete control of the 60,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto who are compelled to work for German industrial firms, it was reported here today from occupied Poland. A staff of three Nazi directors and 60 assistants has been ordered… More ▸
