Utilization of the entire Jewish manpower and economic resources has been decided upon by a conference of heads of the Warsaw subdistricts, according to Gezeta Zydowska, only Jewish newspaper in Nazi-occupied Poland.
During the conference, the chief of the Resettlement Department announced that the establishment of ghettos for the entire Warsaw district had been completed. Jews have been entrusted with police and sanitary services in the ghettos, it was stated.
A Jewish militia, 1,000 strong, is being organized by the Nazi administration of Warsaw to act as a police force within the Warsaw ghetto, it is reported. Only high school graduates may join it. Their records must show they have never been sentenced to any punishment and that they have had military training.
Beliable information reaching Geneva from Nazi-occupied Poland also revealed:
(1) The Nazi administration in Warsaw issued an order prohibiting Jewish group prayers.
(2) The Jewish community of Warsaw was permitted by the Nazi administration to raise a lone of 100,000 zlotys necessary to cover immediate needs in connection with urgent relied for ghetto residents. The loan is to be taken from the “emigration fund” created through confiscation of Jewish property and is to be repaid at the and of March, 1941.
(3) An average of 400 Jews weekly are reaching Warsaw from provincial towns, where life for Jews has become unbearable. This constant influx is aggravating the situation in the ghetto, where there are not sufficient dwellings to accommodate even the Jews compelled to move from other sections of Warsaw into the ghetto.
The information from Warsaw revealed that during October there were 67 cases of typhus, 122 of diphtheria, 46 of scarlet fever, 36 of dysentery and 161 of persons bitten by mad dogs. These figures include both Jews and non-Jews. The TOZ, Jewish health society, has been permitted by the Nazi authorities to take over medical supervision in the Jewish labor camps in the Warsaw district, which are located in Krobow, Czestoniew, Bedlenies, Jasieniec, Zalesie, Kampinos, Szymanow and Terechin.
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