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reasons to oppose continuation of that activity, because in the end it did protest
against it. The fire fighter behaved aggressively, which led to a fight, as
a result of which he [. . .] was roughed up and lost the symbol of his position,
the cap. Consequently, he could do nothing else but flee and complain
to Świerkutt.
Less than half an hour later, a large group of fire fighters marched into
the Jewish district in line of battle under the command of the “mayor”. Armed
with poles and axes, upon signal they began to smash windows and closed
shutters. Before long there was not a single Jewish pane in the whole town.
There were no victims because the terrified Jews panicked and hid in the attics
and cellars. The furious fire fighters could not find anybody. They managed
to capture only a Jewish policeman on duty. Luckily, the man managed to
free himself from the would-be murderers’ hands and thus to save his life.
After that pogrom, Świerkutt was arrested. He has not been released
to this day. One of the Judenrat chairmen, barber Grynsztajn, was arrested.
He was a trusted man of the “mayor”, with whom he had been on friendly
terms. The two of them had made some shady deals together.
The anti-Semitism of the “mayor” did not stop him from raping a number
of Jewish girls.
The other tormentor of Bychawa was a certain Moyshe [4] Suchota (I was
unable to determine whether it was his surname or nickname). A boy about
16 years old, he is an official informer of the gendarmerie. He does nothing
to hide this fact. It has developed into the situation that everybody pays him
off to avoid trouble. But it helps little as, from time to time, Suchota brings in
the gendarmes anyway and actively participates in searches. Butchers are the
ones who suffer the most as ritual slaughter is very much hampered.³⁵⁶ [It is
interesting] that the father of the young denunciator does not try to conceal
his son’s misdeeds. On the contrary, he is proud of his son’s shameful activity
and the attitude [. . .] gendarmerie [. . .].³⁵⁷



ARG I 706 (Ring. I/951)
Description: original, handwritten (FLIG*), ink, Polish, 222×351 mm, minor
damages and missing fragments, some fragments illegible, 2 sheets, 4 pages.



356 Ritual slaughter of animals was forbidden as per the ordinance of 26 October 1939.
357 The remaining part of the testimony has not survived.