Some of the prisoners were released by the police which first wrested from them a written pledge to leave the city immediately.

Others were evicted under a police convoy and sent out of the city like criminals, through the transportation prison.

[1] Many families, having been forewarned of the impending raid, decided to spend the night outside their homes to avoid arrest and maltreatment at the hands of the police.

They hid themselves in the outlying sections of the city and on the cemeteries; they walked or rode all over the city the whole night.

Many an estimable Jew was forced to shelter his wife and children, stiffened from cold, in houses of ill repute which were open all night.