An appeal to Gen. Sikorski, the Polish Premier, and to central Jewish organizations in the United States and England was cabled from here today in behalf of the Jews in Nazi-held Poland, asking for “immediate action to save hundreds of thousands of starving Jews in the ghettos from extinction.”
The appeal was issued as a result of a desperate call for aid which react here from the Warsaw ghetto, stating that unprecedented hunger is raging among to Jews in occupied Poland and that Jewish in America and England must take immediate action to see that food and medicaments reach the Jews in Poland from outside world.
The Palestine representation of Polish Jewry, which transmitted the appeal to the Jewish organizations in America, to the Polish government in London and to the Board of Jewish Deputies in England, added that according to its own information, the International Red Cross in Geneva has expressed its willingness to assist in any rescue activities which may be started in America and England.
The desperate call for food received here reveals that the Nazi administration has reduced the bread rations for Jews in the ghettos to eighty grams a day which is less than one-quarter of a pound. But even this meager ration is not distributed. The Jewish public kitchens in the ghettos have been compelled to drastically reduce their rations and are feeding the tens of thousands of hungry Jews only once in two days.
As a result of the mounting starvation, the call states, death among the Jews is reaching such proportions that undertakers are unable to prepare individual graves and are now digging collective graves in some of which as many as 1,000 corpses are buried. The call from Poland, which is addressed “to Jewish leaders all over the world, especially to those in the United States and England” urges these Jews “to try and break the ghetto walls by at least extending assistance to the sick children and aged either through the International Red Cross or otherwise
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