trying to keep up as best I could, and out of breath I arrived with my escort at the Gestapo building on Szucha Avenue.678 [4] [. . .] when the German had to be something [. . .] me to his office, [. . .], his hands firmly—straight to the back [. . .] with a whip, and I explained that [. . .] of robbery and so I called for police assistance. He wanted to tell me that I had allegedly claimed to be a German, which I denied despite threats [. . .], I confirmed what I had said, that I am married to a former officer of the Austro-Hungarian and later Polish army.
After much agonizing, he wrote a protocol and told me to sign it. I refused. Seeing my resistance, he had someone bring a car, and drove me to Pawiak. There I spent nine months without a hearing, from 3 February until 5 November 1941. It was not until late October that I was summoned to Szucha Avenue [5], and there they began to interrogate me [. . .] He showed me the protocol [. . .] I allegedly admit [. . .] publicly that I am German. [. . .] I could not say anything like that [. . .] I could at most call upon the officership [. . .] knowledge of the German language. I told him the course of events on Waliców Street. The officer, however, claimed that he should rather trust what his predecessor or a former colleague wrote. Then he gave me to understand that he wanted to cancel my case, but not by an investigation against my arresters. It would be best, in his opinion, if I were to maintain my previous accusation, but the nine-month detention would be considered as endured punishment. Otherwise, I would be sent to a camp. No [6] [. . .] to sign such a protocol, and in [. . .] made no mention of my signature [. . .]
[. . .] secretary who began [. . .] my and in her presence the mouth [. . .] I admit to it without anyone’s insistence or coercion . . . I laughed inwardly at the legal comedy and nodded, saying “no.” I was transported back to Pawiak, and a week later I was released without trial.
We, Jewish women, were kept separately from Christian women in Pawiak, in two cells with 30 people in each one. We slept on benches, which were attached to the walls and, raised for the whole day, and only at night were we allowed to [. . .] Jewesses had to clean up their cells, but also Polish women [. . .] keep everything in perfect [7] brought right to [. . .] cleaning of the cell of Polish women, they [. . .] remuneration or [. . .] time to gain more
