2,000,000 Jews in Poland

Herded - Into Ghettos

have no place in the general com(By JOSEPH W, GRIGG JR.)

Berlin, Feb. 20 (UP) .-A wave of munity, They are isolated and
anti-Semitism following close behind quarantined.
In occupied France the anti-Jewthe victorious German armies has
ish
campaign flared immediately
the
countries
of
Europe
.
swept over
after
the German invasion.
the
greatest
vioIt struck with
Following
short anti-Semitic ediagainst
Poland,
which
before
lence
torials
in
the German-controlled
of
the
war-with
an
estimated
start
3,000,000 Jews - had the largest Paris press, the Germanon military
Oct. 2
Jewish population of any country government in France
all Jews
issued
a
decree
compelling
Europe
.
Oiily
a
slight
ripple
was
to
and themcaused in Norway and Denmark, to register their business
stores had to carry
which together barely had 8,000 selves. Jewish
yellow and black signs : "Jewish enJews.
weeks later folPoland today is a closed country terprise." Threedecree
authorizing
barred in principle to neutral cor- lowed another
over the . Jewish
respondents; Information on the Aryans to. take
A third decree ordered
country therefore only can be se- businesses closure
of all Jewish
immediate
and
incomplete
.
Official
cond-hand
on arrival of a German
German statements made it clear, businesses Aryan
administrator to
appointed
1 however, that Jews-totalling perinventory .
Naps 2,000,000-in the Polish rump conduct
According to Paris police estiknown as the "Government General"
are 3,000 Jewish stores
} have been d:-iven back into a ghetto mates thereJews
in Greater Paris.
and
150,000
.
of the middle ages
The largest ghetto is in Warsaw Hard Hit in Belgium.
where, according to German estianti-Semitic campaign began
mates, there are approximately 500,- inThe
Belgium soon after the invasion .
000 Jews . Other big ghettoes or Under various German decrees Jew( "Jewish city districts," as the Gerlawyers no longer are permitted
mans prefer to call them, are at ish
to practice. Jews are not permitted
Lublin and Cracow .
to hold jobs as teachers, professors,
Herded Into Warsaw.
managers, directors or editors of
The Germans set about creating', newspapers.
Jewish refugees are
Warsaw's ghetto immediately after not permitted to return to Belgium .
Poland capitulated . Jews were evict- I All Jews must register with a full
ed from their homes throughout the', inventory. All towns with less than
city and herded into the ghetto .
5,000 inhabitants must keep a regisThe eviction at Cracow was car-' ter of Jewish Inhabitants . All
ried out in what was described as' hotels, restaurants, cafes and bars
"voluntary migration" under which owned by Jews must display this
up to September, 1940, more than notice : "Jewish enterprise ." It must
32,000 Jews left to settle in the War- be in the German, French and Flemsaw and Lublin ghettoes .
ish languages .
The Warsaw ghetto was completIn the occupied Netherlands the
ed Nov. 16, 1940. It is entirely iso- situation is much the same, A small
lated from the remainder of the anti-Semitic outburst occurred a few
city by a barbed wire fence. All the months ago with the smashing of
gates are guarded by German, Po- windows in some Jewish stores, but
lish and Jewish police . No one can German authorities ordered a cessaenter or leave without a special tion of the activities.
permit signed by German authoriThe only occupied countries where
ties .
there is very little anti-Semitism are
Throughout
the
"Government Norway and Deninark . Nazi Parties
General" and other parts of former in both these countries have indulgPoland annexed outright to the ed in some anti-Jewish propaganda,
Reich, all Jews must wear yellow but the movements gained no headarm bands with the Star of David . way-probably because there are so
Each ghetto is governed internal- few Jews in Scandinavia. Denmark
ly by a Jewish Council of Elders, has only 6,000 Jews, Norway only
which, naturally, is under strict about 1,500.
German supervision .
Policing o
the ghetto is carried out by Jewish
constabulary recruited from the
former Jewish officers and non-commissioned officers from the Polish
and
Austro-Hungarian
Armies.
Raids by German Gestapo police,
however, occur frequently.
Since January, 1940, all male
Jews between the ages of 14 and
60 have been compelled to work for
German authorities in the Jewish
labor service .
Throughout former Poland the
public German policy is to treat
the Jews as inferiors, a "low quality" race, Under German. rule they