The Daily Herald reports that the Nazi regime is seeking to obtain funds from America by forcing Jews to write to friends citing the fear of removal to the Lublin Jewish “reservation.”
“Hitler’s advisers have thought of a method by which the Lublin Jewish ghetto state can be turned into a profitable Nazi venture,” the paper declares. “Jewish organizations and individual Jews have been forced to write to corresponding organizations or friends in the U.S.A. These letters describe the terrible conditions in the Lublin Jewish reservation and implore the American to contribute to the work of reconstruction of providing some sort of shelter for the homeless Lublin Jews.”
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