Hundreds of Jewish buildings in Warsaw are offered for public sale and nobody wants to buy them. Four hundred of them have been sold at auction for insignificant sums.
This is the latest news to come from Poland. This news shows how much more serious the plight of the Polish Jews becomes with every day. How even Jews who were well-to-do have been reduced to misery.
The houses which were sold at auction as a result of the heavy taxation from which Polish Jewry suffers, have all passed into the hands of banks which are in direct contact with the Ministry of Finance. It is these banks that are now acquiring Jewish property and are liquidating Jewish wealth accumulated in the course of generations.
But not only houses are being sold by Jews for paltry sums. The Jewish press in Warsaw daily tells tragic stories of how Jews are offering their tables and chairs, their beds and pillows, on the market for just a few pennies; for hardly enough to buy a loaf of bread.
What is being done to help these unfortunates?
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