Nazi authorities in Poland are insisting that the number of Jewish births in the Warsaw ghetto, which is very small as compared with pre-war times, must be further reduced, Polish circles here learned today.
A neutral observer who recently visited Warsaw and reached London today reported that the Nazi administration in the ghetto is checking every Jewish birth there. In issuing ration cards, they emphasize that the food situation requires that there be no Jewish births at all.
Despite the Nazi threats to imprison or even execute Poles who are smuggling food for the Jews into the ghettos, Polish peasants are still continuing to illegally provide foodstuff to Jewish friends, the observer said. His report was substantiated today by information reaching the Polish government here from Sosnowiec that Israel Sternfeld, a former Jewish businessman there, was executed by the Nazis for “prohibited” dealings with Poles. The same information reveals that in Warsaw four Poles were sentenced to prison for supplying food to Jews in the ghetto, and that one of them is a peasant from a neighboring village who was convicted for the second time of the “crime” of selling potatoes to Jews.
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