Jews constituting ten per cent of the entire population of Poland comprised twenty-five per cent of the total death list in Warsaw during 1934, official mortality statistics disclosed here today.
Not a single Jew died of alcoholism, the data reveals. Among the 12,786 persons who died here during the year, 3,441 were Jews. Most of them died of cardiac ailments and of undernourishment.
Fishl Greenboim, a 60-year old Jewish teacher, committed suicide i. Lodz today by hanging himself. He left a note saying that he could no longer bear to witness the starvation his family is suffering. He is survived by his wife and four children.
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