Reports reaching here today said that the entire Jewish population of Warsaw, up to the age of 60, has been drafted for forced labor and put to cleaning up the city. Non-Workers are barred from receiving food. The reports confirmed precious advices that the thickly-populated Jewish quarters of the city had been entirely destroyed during the Nazi
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