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Endeks Plot New Attacks on Wilno Jews, Lithuania is Warned

November 10, 1939
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A delegation of Wilno Jewish leaders, headed by Dr. Jacob Wygodski, today warned the Government that Polish Nationalists (Endeks) were planning to renew anti-Jewish rioting in Wilno on Saturday. The authorities promised to take the necessary measures.

Three thousand Jewish refugees in Wilno have departed for their former homes in what is now the Soviet-occupied area of Poland.

The famous Mir Yeshiva (rabbinical seminary) has been transferred to the Lithuanian town of Kedainai.

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