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Jenta Lejzerson
Jenta Lejzerson
Woman who described ghetto conditions and later left for Israel.
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... *“‘Jenta Lejzerson described how all Jews from the
ages of fourteen to sixty were sent. away for slave labor.
They worked in three shifts, covering a span of twenty-
four hours a day. She told of the pitifully meager wages
paid for this forced work and how the black market
raged in the ghetto, supplying necessities unavailable
through normal channels. The ghetto itself was inde-
scribably constricted and crammed with people. The
population was susceptible to epidemics of dysentery
and typhus. Most of the cultural institutions in Bialy- ...Connected nodes
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