Nov. 10, 1941

Order for Warsaw Ghetto Imposing the Death Penalty on Jews Leaving the Ghettos and Poles Assisting Them, Issued by Dr. Ludwig Fisher, Governor of the Warsaw District in the General Government [Poland]: “…Death penalty for illegal leaving the Jewish residential district. -Recently, in many documented instances, Jews, who have left the residential districts designated for them, have spread typhus. To safeguard the population against this dangerous threat, …any Jew, who in the future illegally leaves the residential district designated for him, will be punished by death. …Warsaw, 10 November 1941 – Dr. Fisher, Governor”
Archives of Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw; ipn.gov