This all took place in November 1941. Between then and his arrest, which probably occurred some 8 to 10 weeks later (around 15 January), Schmid took about 50 people belonging to the movement out of Vilna to Lida and Białystok. He brought 20 people out from a peat mine, where they had been working hard, to Vilna, and also transported many assorted Jews from Vilna to Belorussia. Two days before finalising a new transport to Białystok, he was arrested. He already had a departure certificate prepared and was far advanced in preparing to travel to Šiauliai547 to bring out halutzim from the local ghetto.
ARG I 1040 (Ring. I/165)
Description: duplicate (2 copies), typewritten, Yiddish, 208x293 mm, minor dam-ages and losses of text, 10 sheets, 10 pages. On p. 1 of the first copy, a note by Hersh Wasser in Yiddish (ink): “14 pages”. See HWC, 10/3 (third copy, typewritten, 5 sheets). Edition based on the duplicate, 5 sheets, 5 pages.
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1941/1942, Warsaw, ghetto. Anonymous account of the first six months of the German occupation of Vilna
[1] Vilna – 7 o’clock in the morning. Terrible panic. Got nothing in the shops. The Germans bombed first thing in the morning. On 24 June, bombing ceased. Rumours that Vilna is an open city. The Germans came from the direction of Kovno. Immediately Lithuanian
