Thirty percent of the Jewish population in Poland are declassed and starving, while 90 percent of the Jewish workers are unemployed and Jewish professionals and intellectuals are in a desperate state, Deputy Rothenstreich informed the Polish Sejm.
The process of uprooting the Jews from their economic positions is, moreover, growing apace, he declared, with 15% of Polish Jewry only earning a bare subsistence. Seventy groschen daily is considered a good wage for an average Jewish family in Warsaw, Lodz and Vilna, formerly thriving industrial centers offering a good livelihood to the Jews.
An investigation of the Jewish schools, he said, disclosed that of 46 children, 11 had their breakfasts, 14 were fed on tea and the rest received no food. Some children, moreover, sought to hide bread received at school meals to take home to their starving families, Deputy Rothenstreich asserted.
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