Wołyńska From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Wołyńska
  • 25
  • 'Special' house
  • in the ghetto
  • social/communal
  • poor, children, death

  • The report from 23 February 1942 announces that in that building from the beginning of the war 97 out of 308 inhabitants died, including the whole family of the Auswaks' (6 people); out of 308 inhabitants 20 are orphans and 22 half-orphans.

  • Jews' Diaries, sygn. 302/239; the Jewish Historical Institute Archives; title: Sprawa 'specjalnych' domow w dzielnicy zydowskiej (The Issue of 'Special' Houses in the Jewish District) Author's name unknown, the issue of 'special; houses in the Jewish district. Memorial with an appeal for help to the dwellers of so-called 'special houses' in the Warsaw ghetto. They lingered on in hopeless conditions and died of starvation and epidemic. Report of 23 February 1942 concerns the situation in the so-called 'special houses'. Apart from the text proper, the report consists of 5 appendices, of which only one (no. 1) survived. The others were: a report about orphaned children after their entire families died (no. 2); a report of the House Committee in Krochmalna Street No. 13(no. 3); a report on cases of cannibalism (no. 4); a report on the impossibility of buying cheap dinners in people's kitchens by the dwellers of special houses (no. 5). The author of appendix no. 1 is engineer B. Finkel. Typescript, p. 1-8, size: 290 x 210 mm, in Polish. <b>Archive of the Jewish Historical Institute </b>
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