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

Testimony of A. J., from Wyszkow, 44 year old kaftan-maker, member of the local Bund committee, socialist delegate and a chairman of the laborer front. He describes initial bombardments and refugees arriving from nearby towns such as Pultusk and Maków Mazowiecki. He and his family hid in the orchard during the last period of the war, and were arrested by Germans on their return to Wyszkow. The Polish men were released but the Jews were held. After being held the Jews, too, were freed. He describes anti-Semitic incitement of the Polish population by the occupying German soldiers in Wyszkow, and the general destruction of the city. On a business trip to Radzymin he witnessed forced labor of Jewish women. He describes atrocities during the High Holidays, desecration of Torah scrolls, and the mass murder in Wyszkow of 500 people, including children. The author and his family fled made their way to Vilnius by way of Bialystok in October. Protocol No.23 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.Electronic text and image data.