Particularly during the later period when it was necessary to obtain proof of registration prior to 1 September 1939 from the Address Office, the second group tried to obtain gusievkas as indispensable employees of various enterprises. [12] Of the enormous number of refugees, around 50,000–60,000676 were deported from Lvov alone into the interior of Russia and approximately 5,000 were exempted due to the intercession of institutions and enterprises, including those who obtained gusievkas in return for money, plus a certain number of those who avoided deportation by hiding and then receiving passports as “Lvovians”. The remainder finally received passports with §11 and had to leave Lvov.
ARG I 868a (Ring. I/459)
Description: original, handwritten, 6 notebooks, ink, Polish, 154x195, 145x200
mm, 104 sheets, 101 pages.
Continuation most probably in doc. 31.
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After 20 November 1941, Warsaw, ghetto. Anonymous testimony of a refugee from Łódź regarding her journey in November 1939 to the territories occupied by the Soviet Army, the situation in occupied Lvov, and the first wave of anti-Jewish pogroms after the German troops’ arrival in the city
[1] Long journey to Lvov (1939) and back (1941): impressions and reflections
When the German element in Łódź began to raise their heads and seek revenge for the recent acts against it, sensing what was to come, I decided to leave the city; my destination was the territories occupied by the USSR. Putting that thought into action, on 24 October 1939 I set out to Lublin via Warsaw with
