[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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Testimony of an anonymous author who is named"a pionee"; he describes the German and Soviet occupation of Łomża. The Germans occupied the city in early September and the soviets entered it on September 29th. He describes arrests and repressions by both German and Soviet occupying forces. The soviets forcibly registered all young and middle aged men for immigration, and arrested political leaders of Zionist organizations and the Jewish Bund. The Germans looted stores and Jewish property, and arrested men. The bombardment destroyed buildings in the city including the markets, synagogues, and many libraries of Jewish and Zionist organizations. Protocol No. 67 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.