Another regulation announced new restrictions of traffic, banning Jews from entering a number of streets (Gedymina, Dominikańska, Trocka, Kalwaryjska, Wielka Pohulanka, Legionowa, Niemiecka, Wielka, Wileńska,and Kolejowa).
Around this time (August 1941) all members of the Judenrat were arrestedand most likely shot. One of them was an old Vilna activist, Dr Wygodzki, who, although aware that he was risking his life, had appealed to the authorities requesting clarification on certain social issues. He was beaten so severely that he died some days later in Łukiszki prison. On 26–28 August 1941, after a provocation during which Jews were alleged to have killed two Germans, 8,000 Jews (men, women, children, and the elderly) were deported in anunknown direction.
[6] During such operations, the streets were closed and people were dragged from their homes and told to take one pair of warm undergarments with them. The following streets were cleansed then: Szklana, Gaona, Żydowska, Jatkowa, Straszuna, Lidzka, Szawelska, Szpitalna, Dzisieńska, and Bosaczkowa. (These are the streets that would later mark the outline of the ghetto, more or less.) As for the remaining Jews in Vilna, the following restric-tions were introduced:
Jews are allowed in the city from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. There was a specialannouncement that the men responsible for killing two Germans were two Jews, who were caught red-handed and shot on the spot.
Warsaw, in January 1942
ARG I 1036 (Ring. I/931)
Description: duplicate (3 copies), handwritten, pencil, Polish, 148x208 mm, 18 sheets, 18 pages. On p. 1 of the first copy note by Hersh Wasser in Yiddish (ink): “No. 7. 109 –1942/1 January”. Edition based on the duplicate, 6 sheets, 6 pages.
VI L NA [ 24] 345
