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

Rabbi Abraham Efraim Nadelman, from Ostrow testifies about the incidents in his town from the 2nd September to the 2nd October 1939. He begins with describing the invasion of the Nazis and heavy canon fire and bombings that left a lot of casualties among the inhabitants. He depicts in details how the situation of the Jews of the town, with its Jeschiwa students, decreases rapidly and the Jews suffer severe torture and humiliation. Pious Jews suffer tremendously. Their beards get shaven off brutally, they get beaten and tortured for hours and they are forced to do degrading work. On every Jewish holiday the Nazis come up with a new level of terror. With the time, more Jews were murdered, deported, driven out or tried to flee. Protocol No. 27 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.

Protocol No. 27 -- פראטאקאל נומער 27