Gęsia From Warsaw

  • YES
  • From Warsaw
  • Gęsia
  • 71
  • a special house
  • in the ghetto
  • social/communal
  • children

  • report of 23 February 1943 says in this building out of 337 present inhabitants there were 19 orphans and 53 half-orphans

  • Author unknown. The issue of the 'special' houses in the Jewish quarter. A memorial appealing for help for the tenants of the so-called 'special hoses' in the Warsaw ghetto. They lingered in hopeless conditions, dying on a mass scale of starvation and epidemics. Report of 23 February 1942 on the situation in the the so-called 'special hoses' in district VI of the ZOS. Apart from the main text, it included 5 attachments, with only one (No. 1) that remained. The others are: report on children orphaned after their entire families had died; report of the Hose Committee in Krochmalna Street No 13 (No. 3); report on cases of cannibalism (No. 4); report on inability to purchase cheap meals in people's kitchens by the tenants of 'special houses' (No. 5). Attachment No. 1 was written by engineer B. Finkel. Typescript, pp. 1–8, format: 290 x 210 mm, in Polish.

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