More than 10,000 Jews are now sheltered in synagogues and other Jewish public buildings in the Warsaw ghetto as a result of the acute lack of dwelling space in private homes, it is disclosed in a report receive here today from Nazi-held Poland.
The report says that the borders of the Warsaw ghetto are constantly under-going changes. Whenever transports of wounded German soldiers reach Warsaw, Jews are compelled to leave their dwellings in order to make room for the Nazis. The Jews who are dispossessed remain homeless unless a place is found for them in a Jewish public building.
Mortality among the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto is growing to a point where each hour there are an average of six funerals, the report declares. Misery among the Jews is so great that the Nazi authorities have seen fit to permit Jews to draw 1,000 zlotys from their blocked accounts, in order to reduce the number of charity-seekers which the Jewish community cannot accommodate because of its constantly decreasing income. Among those dependent on charity are many Jews who have deposits in banks but cannot draw on the because all Jewish accounts have been frozen by the German administration. The permission to draw 1,000 zlotys is the first of its kind granted since April 1941.
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