Before 9 a.m., we arrive at the Municipal Board. The director is busy. We submit the letters from the Co-ordination Commission and the Warsaw Social Self-Help Committee along with our visiting cards [19] through one of the clerks.
After less than 15 minutes, the director of the Housing Office comes to the door and tells us that the building is available.
Jewish refugees move in there that same day.
ARG I 459 (Ring. I/1071).
Description: original (typewritten with handwritten amendments, pencil, ink, 100x210, 206x293 mm), duplicate (two copies, handwritten, pencil, 146x204 mm, substantial damage and missing fragments), Polish, 41 sheets, 41 pages.
Edition based on the original, 19 sheets, 19 pages.
[1] 30 September 1939
It has been four days since Warsaw signed the act of surrender. The voice of [Mayor] Starzyński, encouraging us to persevere, has fallen silent.
Everyone is waiting for the Germans to enter. Municipal labourers, especially tram drivers, are filling ditches, removing barricades, repairing tram rails. No other means of communication are available.
Remnants of the Polish army are leaving Warsaw, or disband to go home. Some clever individuals manage to nick various things from soldiers; some even end up with horses and army service wagons.
Municipal and state-owned warehouses have been open for the past three days. Under the supervision of the remaining military forces, food and other products are distributed among the population, for example at the Citadel.
