Zamenhofa From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Zamenhofa
  • 56
  • special house
  • in the ghetto
  • social/communal
  • poor, death
  • Report of 23 February 1942 reads that in this building died out 10 entire families.

  • name unknown, Sprawa 'specjalnych' domow w dzielnicy zydowskiej (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.

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