On 15 November, the Jewish district was closed, and therefore the newly established so-called Jewish police was dispatched the first time to serve at the outlet points. Unfortunately, I was sick at the time and did not observe the events that took place from 15 November to 1 December with my own eyes. All I know is that I was very surprised not to have been called. Having recovered by the end of November, I went to the building where the Jewish police had already set up their offices. It was a former school building on Prosta Street.705 At that point, I was already aware—as an observer—of certain organisational features of the emerging institution. There I saw lawyer Szelbach, the head of the secretariat; the Czapliński brothers, Marceli and Stanisław, serving as aides; Gąbiński was the head of the administrative office; lawyer Nikodem Goldsztejn was the head of the personnel department, with lawyer Lewin and [Albert] Szwalbe (Szeryński’s brother-in-law) as his deputies. The economic department consisted of lawyer [Czesław] Kornblit, [Maurycy] Proszower, and [Ignacy] Blaupapier, while the head of the Chancery was Stefan Lubliner. Other employees included: Lubliner, lawyer [Julian] Ajzenberg, [Aleksander] Kahan, Fryderyk Teszner, lawyer Cahn, lawyer [Mieczysław] Czackis, and a number of other people. The personnel department also employed lawyer [Gustaw] Wichler, Nowogródzki, and a man named [Mieczysław] Tondowski. Lawyers [Aleksander] Brewda and [Józef] Fels were also seen there. The head of the so-called reserve was lawyer [Rafał] Lederman,706 a man of ill repute for a number of reasons. I asked lawyer Nikodem Goldsztejn, for whom I had a letter of recommendation from lawyer Berenson, why I had not been appointed. He gave me an evasive answer. I went to Prosta Street several more times [3], but to no avail. It was only by chance that I met lawyer Adler and asked him why I had not received my appointment. Hard-pressed, he told me that I could not be accepted because I was baptised. He asked me, however, to treat this information as confidential, that is not to reveal my source. I assured Adler that the information was untrue; later, I approached lawyer Goldsztejn and told him that I knew the reasons why I had not been appointed, that this
