Nazi newspapers from occupied Poland reaching here today carry articles charging Jewish families in the Warsaw ghetto with hiding their dead in order to retain the letter’s ration cards.
“A new wave of epidemics has broken out in the Warsaw ghetto as a result of the fact that Jews are hiding their dead relatives in basements without reporting them to the police,” the Krakauer Zeitung writes. The paper adds that the Nazi authorities have informed the Jewish Council in Warsaw that the death penalty will be imposed upon the head of any Jewish family who does not report a death to the police authorities.
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