In the ghetto, up to 40 people live in one room.
Following an order, all foreign-language books were confiscated from the Jewish libraries.
Relations between Poles and Jews are good. The Karaites live outside theghetto.
There is little war damage. Approximately 30 houses were destroyed in the air raids.
Rumours have it that Jews will have to leave Vilna altogether, and only professionals will remain in the city.
According to estimates, the number of Jews [4] at the present time is between 20,000 and 25,000.
The person providing this information took 9 days to get to Warsaw. Lida is burnt down. As far as Ostrów [Mazowiecka] she walked on foot or rode with German troops in military vehicles or on peasants’ carts. From Ostrów she took a train to Warsaw, and crossed over the ghetto walls at Żelazna Street for 25 zlotys.
This person knows nothing about Jewish cultural life in Vilna.
The German commandant of the city is Hingst. 1941
ARG I 1035 (Ring. I/930)
Description: duplicate including pages 1-2 and 4 of the first copy, p. 3 of the second copy, handwritten, pencil, Yiddish, 148x210 mm, 4 sheets, 4 pages. On p. 1 a note by Hersh Wasser in Yiddish (ink): “Not very bright 20-year-old girl”. Attached is a note by Hersh Wasser in Polish: “Vilna, 1941. Testimony of Miriam Abramowska, age 20, refugee from Vilna. Recorded by N. Tytelman”. See HWC, 10/2 (second copy, handwritten, pencil, 4 sheets).
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