Those for expulsion in the synagogue (Maharshal Synagogue, Jateczna
Street), no contact at all with the synagogue. They said that from there to the
slaughter-house on the Wola and from there a side track.
Three kinds of policemen – Ordnungsdienst, Arbeitsamt pol[icemen] and
SK. The commander of the Aktion and SK-man Kupferminc.¹³⁶ The entire Aktion
4 members of Gestapo – Dr. Sturm, Knitzki, Worthoff, Kalech.¹³⁷ The Jewish
police – 300 policemen – the streets brightly illuminated. In 4 rows – sent
back – deathly fear – terror – made life miserable – until the Saturday a week
ago. On Saturday,¹³⁸ one began to acknowledge the fact that people are also
sent on wagons – the last grave – on 14 – last Friday¹³⁹ – in vans with meat.
Some saved themselves by lying among the dead – at the cemetery – or in
a hospital – it was thought that this was safer – old age home – 8 days later –
then 10 minutes orphanage is cleared out – 150 children in the building of
the Jewish community [2] in their shirt sleeves – ½ hour – told to be brought
in again – On Tuesday 4 p.m. ordered again – and taken away – in cars (only
the orphans). Within half an hour it was already known that they had been
shot outside the town and buried in a mass grave. On Wednesday morning,
11 – old age home. Approximately 70 people – shot in old age home – provisional
hospital at Lubart[owska] 9 – 170 patients – one German – within several
minutes killed – Mekhl Shokhet, 30 years-[old], wife and five children,
oh my God I have, forgive me, shot him – Thursday 3 p.m. – in the Jewish
community – the staff of the hospitals – approximately 50 people – in the
white aprons and caps – patients almost 600 – led out and shot. On Monday,
30 March, 2 p.m. – 15 Gest[apo] (during the day – 5 victims – they earned it
cheaply) each took with himself 1 member of the Judenrat – took them home –
removed the family – sealed the houses – brought them back to the front of
the community [building] and all taken to the synagogue – starting with the
chairman, eng[ineer] Bekker and 2 pres[idium?] members Dr Siegfried and
136 SK are Yiddish initials of the sanitarishe komisye (sanitary commission), which assisted the police in the resettlement operation. See footnote 161. Daniel Kupferminc was a member of the Judenrat from 31 March 1942.
137 The Aktion in Lublin was led by four SS-men: SS-Untersturmführer Harry Sturm, SS-Untersturmführer Knitzky, SS-Obersturmführer Hermann Worthoff, and SS-Untersturmführer Walter. It remains unclear who Kalech was. Ibidem, p. 43.
138 28 March.
139 Illegible number, probably a date. Friday fell on 20 and 27 March.
