Many Jewish institutions engaged in providing free meals to thousands of starving Jews in Nazi-held Poland have been compelled to discontinue their activities due to the scarcity of foodstuffs, it is reported in Gazete Zydowska, only organ of Polish Jewry, which reached here today from Cracow.
Though published under strict Nazi censorship, the Gazeta Zydowska paints a heartrending picture of the hunger and homelessness now prevailing among the Jews in Poland. Thousands of Jews are completely roofless. Those who find accommodations in barns, synagogues and Jewish school buildings are considered fortunate.
In addition to closing many free kitchens, some of the kitchens which remained in the ghettos have been limited to distribution of soup only, for which a small fee must now be paid. Jewish institutions in the ghettos are now concentrating their efforts on establishing contact between members of families, thousands of which, after almost two years of separations, are still unable to find each other, the Gazeta Zydowska reports.
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