Rising mortality and starvation among the remaining Jews of Crecow, capital of the Polish Government-General, have obliged the Jewish community to establish a large orphanage and to launch a fund-raising campaign for relief, it was reported here today.
The orphanage will house 500 children who lost their parents since the Nazi invasion in September, 1939. It will be supervised by the Centos, child-care organization which was established about 20 years ago by the Joint Distribution Committee.
The relief campaign, aimed at raising funds to purchase food and fuel for needy Jews, was proclaimed with the permission of the Nazi authorities, who are represented as interested in avoiding spread of disease pending completion of the expulsion of the Jews from the city.
Since many Jews of the community, which before the invasion was the richest Jewish group in Poland, prefer starting to applying for charity, it has become necessary for the Jewish communal authorities to organize special investigating units to establish the requirements of the impoverished.
Each investigator is charged with the responsibility of ascertaining the needs of 50 families in the district in which he lives. These families then receive anonymous assistance in the form of food and coal deliveries.
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