[9] I go onto some stairs, where various people are walking up and down. I put on my armband and leave the gate. I have the impression that the entire street is shouting. I am slowly beginning to discern the voices. “Cheap bread! Cheap bread! Cheap bread!” “Jews, save me! Don’t let me die of hunger!” A scratched Jewish tram rolls along the grating rails. There are enormous, fat lice walking on the walls with a rhymed propaganda slogan of an anti-typhus poster. Between carts with swedes and potatoes there is a pushcart with a corpse whose limb ends have gone greenish. Posters on the walls, “Due to crossing of the ghetto border the following people were sentenced to death…”. Eight surnames follow, including three women. I hurry home. Tears, joy. My mother and brother are dead. Typhus, tuberculosis …
I send for my suitcase and they bring it after an hour. I open it and on the bottom there are … two stones wrapped in rags …
ARG I 865 (Ring. I/481)
Description: original or duplicate, handwritten, ink, 215x236 mm; duplicate (3 copies), typewritten, 225x290 mm; Polish, 21 sheets, 21 pages. On the verso of p. 9 of the original, note (ink): “H.B-n”. Attached is a note by Hersh Wasser in Polish: “1941. Original and duplicates. [Return from Lvov to Warsaw.] Testimony of Henryk Bursztyn”. Edition based on the original, 9 sheets, 9 pages.
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1941/1942, Warsaw, ghetto. “גרעבמעל” [“Lvov”] Anonymous account concerning the Jewish population at the beginning of the German occupation in Lvov
[1] Lvov
At 4 a.m. on 22 July 1941, when war broke out between Soviet Russia and Germany, the people of Lvov suddenly heard the drone of aircraft, and at the same time bursts of machine gun fire, anti-aircraft artillery, and bomb explosions. The population of Lvov could sleep no longer. Everyone was seized by anxiety and ran out into the street. In the street, the war was already clearly
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