On the Borders - Bulletin No. 3

This bulletin was intended to publish the work of the Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, describing the conditions around and at the borders. The bulletin collects fragments of testimonies from several cities and towns that found themselves on the border between the German and Russian occupied territories. Among them Sierpc, Ostrów Mazowiecka, Wysokie Mazowieckie and Brok. They bulletin mentions eviction proclamations to Jewish populations living around the border, as well as perilous illegal crossing of the border to the Russian side. Testimonies mention also arrests and deportations to refugee camps, and masses of refugees in general. The Germans extorted the refugees for their valuables. German soldiers also shot refugees, including women, if they were Jews. Bulletin No. 3 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.