Chmielnik, Nowy Korczyn, Pacanów, Wiślica
In the Końskie county in Końskie ” ” 50 ” ”
In Piotrków ” ” 150 ” ”
Deportees from Vienna
In Kielce ” ” 1,000 ” ”
In the Opatów county ” ” 1,000 ” ”
(Bogoria, Iwaniska, Klimontów, Pokrzywnica, Kunów, Łagów, Ożarów,
Waśniów).
The issue of aiding the resettled from Płock is extremely important and
urgent. A substantial percentage of them are members of the intelligentsia.
In addition, in many cases they constitute a majority of the residents of
a given locality, and without external aid it is impossible to meet even their
most basic needs. Established in individual localities, mixed Aid Committees
operate practically independently of the Judenräte, but there is a noticeable
lack of “delegations” and in many localities the branches, even though they
do exist, do not operate [3] or operate ineffectively. This last phenomenon is
said to be caused by the not always appropriate selection of branch members.
There is a need to consider how to make the branches more effective or
about whether the welfare campaigns should perhaps be entrusted for the
time being to the Judenräte.
The situation of the Viennese is somewhat analogous to that of the resettled
from Płock, the only difference being that some of the former (approximately
25 per cent) receive parcels from abroad. Using the local assistance
and the parcels (clothes) they receive, they are able to keep a tolerable standard,
but the vast majority of the Viennese, entirely at the mercy of the local
welfare organisations, is in a rather difficult position. I had a chance to investigate
this issue more closely in Kielce and I shall discuss it in the section
regarding that city.
On the margin of [my analysis of] the operation of the branches, I wish
to stress that the struggle between the branch and the Judenrat in Skarżysko-
Kamienna⁴²³ has had a detrimental influence on the course of the aid
423 That struggle was in regard to the appointment to positions in the ŻSS branch in Skarżysko-Kamienna. The Judenrat wished to appoint its members to the branch, and it schemed
