with the harrowing depiction of the horrors he once experienced. But in the meantime, we know nothing. Here and there, forgeries surface, more or less clever, often immediately exposed, sometimes deceiving people for some time, ever thriving on curiosity and hunger for sensations.
It is not hard to guess how this handful of writers make their living. They lost their means of work, as did others—civil servants, barristers, teachers, engineers, etc. So, they turn first to selling. Then they look for some side occupation. Korczak596 still works in the orphanage. Winawer597 is the head of the Mathematics and Science Department at the Pedagogium.598 Łazowert599 works in the Department of Propaganda of the Social Section of the Jewish Social Self-Help, Fokszański writes reviews for Sztuka [Art]. Jarecka600 is a clerk at the Community in the Department of Correspondence. They are neither better nor worse off than any other representatives of the intelligentsia. They struggle, spend time in passivity, and wait. They do not play any role in social life, they have no communal milieu, no common ground, no links. They are flotsam and jetsam. Winawer, having spent two years in Soviet Lvov, where he did not write anything, but worked as a physics assistant at the university, also made use of his former education in the ghetto, and his current second profession is as headmaster and teacher at the “Pedagogium.” Belmont,601 sick and broken, died in October 1941 in the ghetto. Mieczysław [4] Braun602 also died shortly thereafter. Whether Korczak is writing something, we do not know. We think he is, but he never tells anyone about it. It is also unclear whether and what Łazowertówna and Jarecka are writing, both of them preferring not to be talked about at all, given their leftist leanings. Fokszański returned from Soviet Lvov, where he wrote poetry and translated other works. Here he
