Starvation in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw has reached a point where a third of the 500,000 Jews there subsist entirely on the meals which they receive in the Jewish soup kitchens, it was reliably reported here today.
The report stated that due to ever-growing misery among the Warsaw Jews, the number of soup kitchens for children in the ghetto has been increased from 35 to 45, while the number of kitchens for adults has been increased to 105 as compared with 88 a few weeks ago. Two special kitchens have been opened for Jewish policemen and three kitchens were established to feed Jewish forced laborers. Some 135,000 meals are now being served daily in the Jewish soup kitchens in the ghetto, the report said.
The extent of the growing need in the Warsaw ghetto can best be judged from the fact that more than 60,000 meals are supplied daily to Jewish inmates in hospitals, in homes for aged as well as to children’s homes. This is in addition to the 135,000 meals distributed in the ghetto, kitchens, the report points out.
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