The Polish Information Ministry reported today the case of a 73-year-old Jewish woman in Warsaw who left the ghetto without a permit to see her daughter, seriously ill, who lived in a different section of the city. The woman was caught on the way, arrested and was subsequently sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment.
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