POLAND: Gentile Candy

In Warsaw's ancient, stinking ghetto last week was many a jumpy Jew who feared for his life. Hardly a day had passed without a terrorizing raid by the newly-formed Polish Nazis and a vigorous counterattack .by the young men of the ghetto. One day a gentile woman on her way through the ghetto paused to give a child a piece of candy. Instantly the ingelach (little boys) and mädelach (little girls) swarmed around her, squawling for candy. A pious Jew stopped in the narrow, stall-lined street, looked into her face, then shouted,...

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