A massacre of the last 35,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto was started by the Nazis on Passover with the streets of Warsaw echoing to the shots of the Nazi murderers and the shrieks of the victims, while able-bodied Jews were trying to defend themselves within the walls of the ghetto.
The secret Polish radio station SWIAT was heard here shortly after six o’clock last night transmitting the following frantic appeal from occupied Poland: “Death sentence has been proclaimed on the last 35,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Gun salvoes are echoing in the streets of Warsaw. Women and children are defending themselves with bare hands. Save us….” At this point the broadcast was suddenly cut off.
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