[28] What is particularly striking is the attitude of the Community in this case. Given that S. was the victim of his obligation, that he was injured on duty, did the Community offer him compensation, like a state would to a citizen who is wounded while defending it? Some fat sinecure or pension? Or perhaps they only restored him to his former position? Let us see what S. himself has to say about it:
“After returning home, I was bedridden for two months, and then I was taken to the surgical [29] ward of the hospital on Czyste Street, where I stayed for a total of six weeks, including quarantine.
After my release, I pulled all strings in the Community in order to find some employment—to no avail. A pack of wolves kills their companion who is sick or injured; they used my illness in a similar way. I did not, however, surrender easily. For months, I would come to the Community; I approached all the members of the Judenrat one by one, I tried direct intervention with Czerniaków, but nothing [30] helped me to waive counsel Zabłudowski’s refusal, a refusal I received for using the wrong expression in the offer. An unsuccessful appeal to the Complaints Department at the Complaint Commission buried any hope I had left.”
ARG I 457 (Ring. I/485).
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Inv.: “Testimony of group commander Sommer, edited by Daniel Fligelman.”
June 1940. Two male peasants accompanied by peasant women came to buy two ladies fur coats: a seal one, for which a price of 220 zlotys was asked, and a coat made from animal paws, for 450 zloty. The buyers wanted to give only
