Nazi sadism against the Jews in Poland is assuming unspeakable proportions, especially in the compulsory removal of debris to which exclusively Jews of all ages, including women and children, have been drafted.
In Warsaw and vicinity, according to eyewitness accounts related to this correspondent, the popular procedure is to compel Jews to climb to the top of wall remnants of ruined multi-storied buildings. The conscripts are forced to break up the walls from the top, thus endangering their own lives and the lives of other conscripts below.
Often workers have been killed by collapsing walls. Others are crushed to death or are crippled when they lose their balance and fall. Nazi foremen standing at a distance spur on “lazy Jews,” frequently shooting into the air to keep them at their tasks.
“Accidental” deaths of Jews engaged in clearing up ruins have become a daily phenome on.
Another popular form of torture among the Nazis is ordering the survivors to bury the dead.
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