Articles describing the hardships of Jews in the crowded, unsanitary ghettos of Poland feature the current issue of the Polish Review, the official organ of the Polish Information Center here, which appeared today.
The weekly reprints pictures of the Warsaw ghetto taken from the Berliner Illustrate Zeitung, showing a wooden bridge erected between two streets in the ghetto so that Jews in passing from one to the other will be prevented from traversing a non-ghetto street which cuts between the two. Also reproduced is a photograph of a door to the Warsaw ghetto on which is attached a large placard stating: “Typhoid Fever – Entrance and Exit forbidden.” Still another illustration shows the front page of an illegal Yiddish paper published in the ghetto. On the page is a drawing of the hand of a Jew clasping the hand of a Pole through the ghetto wall.
The Polish publication reveals that the Nazi press is even seeking to arouse dissension among the Jews themselves. The Berliner Illustrate Zeitung publishes a photograph of a night club and states that it was taken in the Warsaw ghetto. In the same issue they publish a picture of two ragged, starving Jewish boys in the ghetto, trying to imply that if there is starvation in the ghetto it is caused by the rich Jews who neglect their poorer brethren. Another photograph on the same theme shows a group of Jews conversing as they leave their home. Nearby stands a Jewish policeman who is smiling at an old Jew dying in agony on the steps of the house.
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