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New Warsaw Walled Ghetto Near Complete
- Publication Date
- Thursday, January 2, 1941
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- 7
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- Warsaw, Poland — (Correspondence of The Associated Press)—German occupation authorities have almost completely segregated Warsaw's Jews behind an eight-foot wall cutting across 200 streets and streetcar tracks which lead to the central ghetto district.
Officials say that the gradual process of concentrating Jews within the walled area is complete.
Entrance to the ghetto is possible only for persons holding passes recognized by three distinct police forces—German, Polish and Jewish. Officers control traffic and pedestrians going to and from the area on 18 streets which remain unwalled.
The Germans in effect have, as they say, "turned over part of the city to Jews to do with it, under supervision, as they see fit."
In several hundred blocks, populated by upwards of a half-million persons, the Jewish Community Council is the authority for most internal affairs. The council has organized its own security force of a thousand men having a certain police function.
The Jewish "police' are not uniformed but wear uniform caps, carry rubber nightsticks and wear on their right arms bands carrying the blue star of David. They patrol the inner streets, and at the exits stand near Polish and German police checking persons moving in and out.
Some "Aryan" workshops and other firms still remain in the ghetto and their employes[sic] still are permitted to pass to and from the area on showing passes. But newspapers are stressing the "Aryans do not go in—it is not done."
There seems to be more concern over letting persons in than letting them out of the ghetto. The white and blue armbands identifying Jews are to be seen occasionally in other parts of Warsaw but in the ghetto almost 100 per cent of the people wear them.
Germans insist that the segregation is largely a "health measure." The walled area is popularly known as "the disease quarter." Cold weather has been accompanied by an increase of typhus. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Ava K.
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