punishment for unworthy actions. Pity. Our actions are often unworthy, just as unworthy as is our fight for life, as unworthy as is the will to survive.
But no, “our dignitaries” do not have the right to decide that. We are tainted, but don’t you dare vindicate yourselves at our expense.
After all, we loathe the uniforms, the symbol of grime in which we are immersed, through no [4] fault of our own.
Worry not, brigade member! The day will come, perhaps ‘tis not far off, when you shall take off your uniform, never to put it on again. There will come a day when you will become a person again, a person richer in experience, and richer in the knowledge of your own and other people's worth. The day shall come when you will have to report, and it is not certain at all if you will stand as the accused party, but it may happen that your judge and prosecutor of today will appear as the offenders.
Warsaw, 23–30 May 1942
ARG I 517 (Ring. I/31).
Description: original [?] handwritten, ink, Polish, 220x354 mm, 2 sheets, 4 pages.
The Department of Health charged a fee for disinfecting a tenement house. To collect the fee, a so-called collection lock-down was enforced by the Order Service. During the lock-down, nobody was allowed to enter or leave the tenement until the Department of Health collector had received due payment from the House Committee. It was, therefore, a collective responsibility. The House Committee spread the cost of the fee between individual tenants, who were thus forced to pay their respective share. A collection lock-down, according
