chose to make them stay. After making sure that such people were indeed not sent, he let them go.
They say that they were treated very well.
Deportations to Prużany were carried out in alphabetical order. The operation took two weeks. Approximately 2,000 thousand people were sent.
Meanwhile, Jews who had contacts in the German police began to manufacture “scheins” on a large scale, which certified their employment and their indispensability to the military authorities.
On average, such a “schein” cost 5–10 dollars (a military “schein” cost less, police ones – more).
Sometime later, after about two weeks, the deportations stopped. The Jewish order service and Jewish fire brigade were organised, the latter with a specially equipped vehicle with a motor pump at their disposal.
The refugees received passes through the Legal Department. They were issued by the Jewish community, and authorised on the other side by the police (special ghetto branch).
ARG I 697 (Ring. I/791) Description: original or duplicate, typewritten, Polish, 210x298 mm, 1 sheet, 2 pages. Attached is a note by Hersh Wasser in Polish: “Białystok. The first days of a German rule in Białystok”.
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