More than 2,800,000 zlotys were spent during nine months by the Jewish community of Warsaw to maintain the Jewish labor battalions ordered by the Nazi authorities for forced labor, a financial report of the community reveals.
The report establishes that the expenditures of the Community during the first nine months of 1940 amounted to 8,000,000 zlotys, of which some 6,500,000 zlotys were obtained by taxing those elements of the Jewish population who are still in a position to pay taxes, and from income derived from selling lots in Jewish cemeteries. A deficit of 1,500,000 zlotys was covered by a loan secured with the permission of the Nazi authorities raised from among wealthy Jews to facilitate eventual Jewish mass emigration from occupied Poland. The loan was to be repaid within several months.
In addition to the sums spent by the Community on maintaining the Jewish labor battalions, over 2,500,000 zlotys was spent by the Warsaw community on hospital and sanitary work. The sum of 600,000 zlotys was spent in maintaining the Jewish police which has been organised in the Warsaw ghetto under German supervision.
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