APPALLING CONDITIONS
WARSAW A STRICKEN CITY NEW YORK, February 13. Warsaw is actually dying from the ravages of hunger, tuberculosis, and typhus, but the population still resists the tyrants with all its strengh, relates a pamphlet issued by the American Office of War Information, and entitled ' A Tale of a City,' material for which was gleaned from all possible sources. The booklet reveals that there were 218,000 deaths and 8,000 births in the first half of 1941. Children, malformed like ghosts, are suffering from ansemia and bone-stiffening. The bread consists of 40 per cent, sawdust. The cost of living has soared 1,100 per cent., and there k a deficiency of light and heat. Half a .million Jews are crammed into 100 blocks of a ghetto, where the death rate .is the highest of any modern city in the world.
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Evening Star, Issue 24429, 15 February 1943, Page 3
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139APPALLING CONDITIONS Evening Star, Issue 24429, 15 February 1943, Page 3
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