Intense winter cold, hunger, and the unchecked typhus epidemic which is raging throughout Poland, Nazi-occupied Russia and the Baltic area is killing off hundreds of Jews daily in these sections, according to reports reaching here today.
More than 300 deaths daily take place in the Warsaw ghetto from typhus, the reports disclose; and because of the lack of serum anti-typhus inoculations have been stopped. In a Nazi prison camp in Eastern Galicia where thousands of Soviet soldiers are confined the epidemic has also broken out, the Krakiwski Wisti reports, adding that the disease has spread to the local population. In Lwow and Przemysl the hospitals are overflowing with typhus victims and the mortality rate is staggering. Indications of the effects of starvation, Nazi brutality and the typhus epidemic in Lwow can be noted in the official German figures received here. In the month of November there were 1,387 deaths in the city, of which 405 were Jews. Of this total 956 were men, of which 205 were Jews.
In Lithuania, the typhus plague is reported to be spreading like wildfire. Many localities have been completely isolated under orders from Commissar Von Rintelen and motor cars passing through are not permitted to stop. Other reports reaching here today state that the epidemic is approaching Berlin and that women in labor camps in the Brandenburg forest, near Berlin, have stopped working for local farmers because of the typhus epidemic in neighboring villages.
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