DEATH BY POISON
MAYOR OF WARSAW GHETTO REFUSAL TO OBEY NAZIS. DEPORTATION & MASS MURDER OF JEWS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, August 15. _ M. Czarniakov, Mayor of the tragic Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, committed suicide with poison which he always carried, ready to die if the Germans ever demanded the impossible from him. The Germans ordered him to prepare a list of 100,000 for depoitation from the ghetto to a destination in the east. M. Czarniakov knew that the deportees would probably be massacred. There have been mass executions oi Jews deported from other Polish towns. Near Zwlodzimerz, eastern Poland, is a common grave nearly a mile long containing the bodies of many thousands of massacred Jews.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1942, Page 3
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117DEATH BY POISON Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1942, Page 3
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