A new wave of arrests and increased persecution of Jewish professionals was reported today from Warsaw and other cities in German-occupied Poland.
Large numbers of Jewish lawyers, doctors and other professionals are among those detained in the notorious Pawiak prison in Warsaw. Thousands leave their homes nightly and hide in order to avoid arrest.
In the acute food shortage prevailing in the whole of the Nazi-occupied territory. Jews particularly are finding it most difficult to obtain food, not even being allowed to approach the peasant carts in the markets.
Jewish women who previously had ventured out into the streets to search for food and fuel are now afraid to leave their homes since recently women as well as young girls are being systematically rounded up by the Nazis for forced labor and accorded treatment even more brutal than the men.
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