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Thu 06 Jun 2010Denying supplies as once was done in Warsaw Ghetto
The Israeli blockade threatens the functioning and survival of the Gaza Strip’s trapped inhabitants
THERE IS not much left of the Warsaw Ghetto now. The last time I was there, I made a point of looking for traces of it. All that survives of the high brick wall built by order of the Nazis in 1940 to enclose an area of about 5sq km is a short stretch in a courtyard off Zlota street. It is a sad little remnant of the merciless persecution of Poland’s Jews.
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