from time to time, e.g., during round-ups [for deportation] to [labour] camps. Well, no wonder as it was out of sight due to its location in the Aryan district. Only the individuals who accidentally ended up here continued to take interest in this institution.
[112] Mr Józef Ajzenberg was invited [to the quarantine] and thus had an opportunity to meet its wards. He provided such a number of bars of soap and soap chips that it was enough for many months for a large number of camp people and those in isolation.
Report on the activity of the Care Section for the Quarantine at Leszno Street 109:
“We turned to certain companies and private persons with a request for certain medications. The results were as follows:
The chair of the Pollabar company, Mr Werczowski306
“25 kg of talcum powder, 5 kg of ointment, 10 kg of hydrogen peroxide.”
Mr Józef Ajzenberg
“6 tubs of soap chips, soap, and washing powder.”
Mr Nos
“a full first-aid kit.”
[113] As stressed before, the quarantine at Leszno Street 109 is at the threshold of the ghetto. High and low, the waves of misery crashed against its steps. As the scale of the Jewish tragedy swings to and fro, the quarantine at Leszno Street 109 is the only permanent element.
The quarantine was an entrance to and an exit from the Jewish misery.
In September 1941 the quarantine building was transformed into an infectious diseases hospital—a branch of the former Jewish Hospital at Czyste.
ARG I 588 (Ring. I/143).
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