Anti-Semitic measures taken by German forces, during the Nazi Occupation of Poland, in World War Two. July 31, 1940; Olkusz, Poland, on 'Bloody Wednesday'. A German police unit arrived, gathered all Jewish men in the main square and forced them to lie on the ground while the policemen and members of the SD 'registered them'. They beat the Jews, shooting one. Rabbi Moshe Yitzhak Hagerman was forced to don his defiled tallit (prayer shawl) and tefillin (phylacteries) and stand barefoot and pray next to the prostrate men of the Jewish community.