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Senate Hears Report on Jewish Starvation in Poland

August 17, 1942
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Congressional circles today discussed the question as to what can be done here for the starving Jews and Poles in Nazi-held Poland, following an impressive speech delivered in the Senate last Thursday by Senator James M. Mead on Nazi atrocities in Poland.

In his stirring address, Sen. Mead stated that “in the ghetto of Warsaw alone, in 1941, about 50,000 Jews died of starvation.” The death rate of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto today is 6,000 a month, he said. He predicted that as a result of the murderous policy of the Nazis in Poland, “it will not be long before there are no Jews left in the Polish ghettos.”

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