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

Testimony of J. K., 19 year old yeshiva student from Zawady, a small village by Ostrow Mazowiecka. He describes the village being relatively unharmed at the beginning of the war, but tell that once the Germans entered it, they took all men, Jews and Poles, and deported them ot Germany. The men were held confined in a church for several days in harsh conditions, without food, then sent off by train. In Germany the Jews were separated from the Poles and sent on to a prisoner camp (stalag) near Stablak. They did forced labour on a minimal amount of poor food. The Poles also were brought there, and the enmity between the Jews and the Poles escalated; the Poles robbed the Jews of food and clothing. The conditions in the camp caused a typhoid outbreak. After several weeks a thousand men were loaded into freight cars, and shipped to Ostroleka; they were held in the cars day and night without food until they were brought to Ostroleka under military escort, and eventually let go. The men walked together on foot 30 km. Protocol No. 201 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.