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75% Suburban Jews in Poland Are Starving

April 27, 1934
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Seventy-five per cent of the Jewish population in the small towns of Poland are dying of starvation, Deputy M. Wiszlicki declared today in an address before the Central Organization of Jewish Merchants, of which he is president.

Other speakers at the annual meeting of the group agreed that the terrible economic conditions in which Polish Jews find themselves is caused by the general growth of the Jewish population of the country, coupled with the simultaneous decline of the merchant class owing to the heavy burden of taxation imposed upon them.

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