Most of them were killed in the autumn of 1941. others during 1942 and 1943. Only a few hundred Jews managed to survive. and these have formed special fighting guerrilla units to avenge the death of their brethren. According to information of the Overseas News Agency. all the ghettos in Lutsk and in Krzenieniec were liquidated by the Germans. but some French Jews deported from France to Poland escaped. formed a number of partisan units. and are now attacking. German transports and trains in the wooded country of central Poland. A harrowing account of the sufferings of Jews deported from western Europe to Poland has been given by the underground paper of the Belgian Jewish Defense Committee. Le Flambeau. It is based upon information supplied by two Antwerp Jews who fled from Belgium in May 1940. were captured by the Germans in Nice. and deported to a labor camp at Sosnowiec. from where they subsequently escaped. According to their report. Jews on their arrival in the camp were stripped of their possessions as well as their clothing. and were given a few rags called workingclothes. which were adorned with four yellow starsone on the chest. one on the back. and one on each knee. The most brutal beatings were inflicted under the slightest pretext. Men and women worked in separate camps. where they were constantly subjected to inhuman treatment. Those who were regarded as unfit for work. due to either age or infirmity. were deported to Oswiencim to be liquidated. Countless children. having heard about the horror of Oswiencim. pretended to be over 13 years of age. in order that they might be considered eligible for work. The report related to two incidents. of which the escaped were eyewitnesses.
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