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

Testimony of A. W., 20 year old trader from Goworowo. He describes the occupation by the Germans, then by the Russians, of the Bialystok area, and tells how, under German occupation, the Jews were burned inside the synagogue in the town of Czyzew-Osada. The town of Zambrow had its synagogue and study hall, with their torah scrolls, burned and bombarded. Protocol No. 54 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.