In an over-all presentation of the picture of Nazi extermination of Jews in Poland, Soviet prosecutors at the war crimes trial here charged yesterday that of 3,500,000 Jews living in Poland in 1939 only 100,000 were left alive there when the war ended and an additional 200,000 had fled to the U.S.S.R.
Evidence was submitted to prove that Jews driven into ghettos in Warsaw, Lodz, and Cracow were systematically starved to death and that they received a food ration which was only one-eighth of the pre-war ration in Poland while Germans were receiving five times as much as they had had previously. In the Warsaw ghetto, prosecutors pointed out, 400,000 Jews were herded together in 1,359 houses, averaging thirteen persons in a room.
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