A Taste of Ghetto Life 6. Office for Combating Usury and Speculation – Leszno 13

We invite you to read another column by Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych in the series "From Life in the Ghetto," in which the author explores, among other things, the issues of feeding the ghetto's residents, the activities of ad hoc feeding stations for starving residents, and the Transferstelle, a soup kitchen for children and infants. She discusses the courthouses that served as a transit point for food smugglers, Janusz Korczak's efforts to obtain aid for the Main House of Refuge, the so-called house committees, and the people and institutions that had to […]