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Annex No. 5

THE JEWISH COUNCIL IN WARSAW

dated 22.VII.1942.

N O T I C E

 Annex No. 5

 THE JEWISH COUNCIL IN WARSAW

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       dated 22.VII.1942.

                N O T I C E 

1) In accordance with the orders of the German authorities, 
all the Jews inhabiting Warsaw, irrespective

  of their sex, or age, will be deported to the East.

2) The following classes are exempt from deportation:

     a) All the Jews employed by the German authorities or business 
who are able  to prove this fact by documents.

     b) All Jews who are members or employees of the 
		 Jewish Council on the date of the promulgation of 
		 this official notice.

     c) All Jews who can prove that they are employed in business 
firms having  their legal seats  in the Reich.

     d) All Jews able to work, who are not employed so far
( these should be sent  to barracks in the Jewish quarter.

     e) All Jews belonging to the Jewish force to maintain order.

     f) All Jews belonging to the personnel of Jewish hospitals, 
and Jewish  decontamination squads.

     g) All Jews belonging to the immediate families of the persons 
enumerated  in paragraphs a) to

        f).  Only wives and children are considered in this category.

     h) All Jews who, on the first day of deportation, are in one of the 
		 Jewish hospitals and cannot be sent home at once.

     The fact that they cannot be released from hospitals must be 
		confirmed by a doctor appointed by the Jewish Council.

3)  Every Jewish deportee is entitled to take 15 kg. of personal
effects as travelling luggage.

Luggage weighing more than 15 kg. will be confiscated.  
All valuables such as money, jewelry, gold etc., can be taken away.
 The deportees should carry food for three days.

4)  The beginning of the deportation is fixed for July 22nd 1942 
at 11 a.m.

5)  Penalties:

     a)Every Jew not belonging to the categories enumerated 
in paragraph
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 2,points a) and c) and not entitled to belong to them who leaves 
		 the Jewish quarter at the beginning of the deportation will be shot.

            

  b)Every Jew who acts as as to evade or impede the execution of the orders 
		 concerning deportation will be shot.

  c) Every Jew who abets acts which may lead to the evasion or impeding of 
		 the execution of the deportation, will be shot.

  d) Every Jew who is seen in Warsaw after the conclusion of the deportation 
		 order, and who does not belong to the categories enumerated 
		 in paragraph 2, points a) to h) will be shot.