Nazi authorities in Warsaw have started the registration of all Jewish children in the ghetto, from 14 to 16 years of age, preparatory to sending them to forced labor battalions, it is reported here today.
The Krakauer Zeitung, official Nazi organ in occupied Poland, reports that in order to accommodate the ever-increasing number of Jews deported from Nazi-controlled territory to the Warsaw ghetto, the Nazi administration has decided to include in the ghetto a number of streets laying south and north of the ghetto walls. The following streets are now added to the ghetto. Okopowa, Nowolipia, Zelazna, Chlodna, Elektoralna, Bankowa, Rymarska, Leszna, Krasinska, Dzika and Franciskanska. Non Jews living on these streets have been ordered to move by November 20. Factories within the district which are not owned by Jews have been ordered to register immediately in order that they may be transferred to other districts.
The Nazi authorities have also decided to install electrified wires around the ghetto walls in Warsaw, Lublin and other Polish cities, warning non-Jews at the same time that they must always be at least fifty meters away from the walls otherwise they will be fired on at sight. This measure is reported to have been taken in order to put an end to the growing practice among the Polish population of throwing food over the wells of the ghetto, as a demonstration of sympathy with the Jews.
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