Wołyńska From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Wołyńska
  • 27
  • a 'special' house
  • in the ghetto
  • social/communal
  • poor, children, death

  • According to the report of 23 February in that house there were families where after the death of all members of the family only one minor survived.

  • 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> Tlomackie St. 3/5 00-090 Warsaw phone: (48) (22) 827 92 21, fax: (48)(22) 827 83 72 <a href='mailto:secretary@jewishinstitute.org.pl'> secretary@jewishinstitute.org.pl</a> <a href='http://www.jewishinstitute.org.pl'>www.jewishinstitute.org.pl</a>

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