Jews' Diaries, sygn. 302/239; the Jewish Historical Institute Archives; title: Sprawa 'specjalnych' domow w dzielnicy zydowskiej (The issue of 'Spe...

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  • Name unknown, the issue of 'special' houses in the Jewish district. Memorial with an appeal for help to the dwellers of the so-called 'special houses' in the Warsaw ghetto. They vegetated in hopeless conditions and died of starvation and epidemic. The report from 23 February 1942 concerns the situation of the so-called 'special houses'. Apart from the text proper, the report consist of 5 appendices, of which only one (no. 1) survived. The others were: a report about orphaned children after whole their families died (no. 2); a report of the House Committee Krochmalna Street No. 13 (no. 3); a protocol from a case of cannibalism (no. 4); a report about impossibility of buying cheap dinners in people's kitchen 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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