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Nazis “liquidate” Lodz Ghetto; Deport All Jews from Brzezin

February 21, 1943
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The continued Nazi massacres of Jews in Poland surpass even the massacres of the Armenians by the Turks which stirred the world some 20 years ago, the Swedish press states today.

Information reaching here today from occupied Poland indicates that the Nazis are proceeding with the liquidation of the ghetto in Lodz, second largest ghetto in Europe, following the same procedure used in Warsaw. The 150,000 Jews who were originally herded into the Lodz ghetto have been decimated by hunger, mortality, deportations and executions, the reports say.

The Litzmannstaedter Zeitung, Nazi newspaper published in Lodz, which reached here today, carries a report that all the Jews have been deported from the ghetto in Brzezin and that the ruins of the synagogue there have been destroyed by Nazi technicians from Lodz. The ruins consisted of four walls which remained after the Nazi aerial bombing of the city prior to their occupying it in 1939.

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