[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland] 

[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland] 

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The author, S. M. from Lodz, describes how at the order of Major Ulyushkovsky he and many other Jewish refugees left Lodz on September 6, 1939. He describes the difficulties on the road to Warsaw, including German bombings and machine-gun fire behind Pruszkow and anti-Semitic incidents from the Polish army. At the village of Wiskitki he learned the Germans occupied Warsaw and returned to Lodz. He provides a description of the initial repressive orders given the Lodz Jews, including curfew, expulsion from schools, firing of all state employees and physicians, and confiscation of radios. On November 15 Jews were obligated to wear a yellow star. He notes arrests among the Lodz intelligentsia, including Dr. Alexander Margolis and Prof. Shamashkievitz, a pole. He notes also the destruction of the two Lodz synagogues. Protocol No. 35 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence on the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation.