KOSÓW LACKI
April 1942, Kosów Lacki, Section for the Children’s Feeding Programme
of the Department of Social Welfare in Kosów Lacki. A leaflet with an
appeal to the local ghetto residents to aid the children.
Mother! Father!
The Children’s Feeding Programme Section¹²¹⁰ is turning to you with an
urgent appeal. Increase your effort to help the children!
We lay all our hopes in children, who are our future. We should devote
more attention to children and do everything we can to protect them from
illnesses occasioned by war, death by starvation, and depravity.
Such is the objective of the Section. During the first year of its operation,
following physician’s instructions, the Section issued 2,129 food parcels
worth 12,944.55 zlotys. Of this sum, only 2,367.95 zlotys, that is only 18 per
cent, came from weekly donations of the population.
Last November we organised a morning distribution of coffee among the
poorest children, aged 4–10. This month we also managed to obtain bread for
breakfast for the children. Our activity is clearly growing, but our expenses
are rising, too. During the first quarter of this year we issued 543 food parcels
and 12,600 coffee rations. The expenses amounted to 8,193.25 [zlotys], of
which the town provided only 614.75 [zlotys] (7.5 per cent!!).
The figures speak for themselves! Nonetheless, feeding the children is
not our only objective. We wish to give them moral and educational values,
and we translate words into action as much as we can.
The children spend an hour every day on educational talks, singing, and
playing under the supervision of a Counsellor. They have an hour of respite
from the surrounding poverty and hunger. Their eyes flashing with joy and
1210 The Children’s Feeding Programme Section of the Judenrat in Kosów Lacki was established in January 1941. Initially, it issued only food parcels; later, it organised breakfasts, a common room, and schooling. The section was headed by Judyta Lewkowicz and Mala Jedwabnik. See AŻIH, ŻSS, 211/573, p. 50.
