Although thousands of Jews applied for street cleaning jobs, not a single Jew has been employed among the hundreds engaged by the government to clear the streets of the heavy snow which has fallen.
Warsaw is besieged by a heavy frost which has added a mose acute phase to the general misery of the impoverished Jewish population.
The number of Jewish needy has increased. Thousands of Jewish homes are without heat or food. Even the children, usually cared for, are now among the sufferers. It is a commonplace to see children in the schools and Talmud Torahs faint from hunger both in Warsaw and in the provinces.
The headquarters of the Toz, Jewish Health Society, assert that Jewish school children are actually starving and that five or six children faint in every classroom daily.
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