out that it does indeed, and that everything is in order, the Transferstelle wants the factory to stay in the ghetto, and the Łódź company has to make do without the machine . . .
ARG I 626 (Ring. I/371).
Description: duplicate (three copies), handwritten, Polish, 207x293 mm, minor damage and fragments missing, 9 sheets, 9 pages.
Edition based on copy (a), 3 sheets, 3 pages.
Published in: Selected Documents, 546–548.
The historian who will later describe life in the ghetto in the time of the occupation will devote a separate chapter to the question of smuggling in particular, to the splendid ideas and schemes of the Jewish traders, who simply worked miracles in smuggling techniques just so that they could earn a living. Thus the Aryans together with the non-Aryans sealed a joint deal for transferring goods to the Aryan side and back to the Jewish side. There is great solidarity in this enterprise; everyone supports one another and sees to everything jointly. Recently special Jewish–Polish groups have been created to send clothing (men's and women's clothes) over to the Aryan side. With this kind of merchandise one conducts a widely diversified trade. There is even a group that dispatches the packages and guarantees delivery to a designated place. In one word, the smuggling becomes more perfect and improved and takes the shape of normal border smuggling with all its finer details, “contrabandists”, etc. Fate dictated that when the ghetto was established some houses would be split in a way that half of them were on the Aryan side and the other half on the Jewish side. This situation naturally created a wide field of opportunities for smuggling. A certain group of smugglers in the Stawki area came up with an
