Kahan, Haberman, and Mikelberg try to get to the fire station at Nalewki Street 2 to fetch the firemen. Suddenly, a wall of the home at Nalewki Street 18 collapses and everybody is buried under the rumble. The heat from burning buildings No. 16, 18, and 20 sets ablaze the wooden shutters of the shops on the opposite side of the street. The burning wood is put out with wet rags wrapped over brooms so that the buildings do not catch fire. But there is neither water nor people enough for the work. Firemen and [24] workers are brought over. Water is brought over in barrels. The bill of the expenses borne for the anti-fire defence of the tenement amounts to 13,620 zlotys.
[22] This was in September 1939, before we did the wartime course in “law and order.” We should bear that in mind. Otherwise these sanctions would seem meagre in comparison with 1942 practice.
[25] Appendix I .
Expenses for protection of the tenements at Nalewki Street 23/25.
38 people (100 zlotys per person) 3,800 zlotys
Fireman 1,000 zlotys
[Fireman] 800 zlotys
Well 650 zlotys
5 firemen 3,500 zlotys
Water transport 475 zlotys
(in 500-litre wine barrels)
10 people (30 zlotys per person) 300 zlotys
Workers 1st day [. . .]
[Workers] 2nd day [. . .]
[Workers] 3rd day 180 [. . .]
13,620
ARG I 432 (Ring. I/209).
Description: copy, handwritten, ink, Polish, 148x198 mm, many cases of minor damage and missing fragments, 22 sheets, 25 pages.
According to Emanuel Ringelblum, the author of the text was Dr. Celina Lewin; see Kronika getta, p. 489.
