April 1942, Warsaw ghetto, author unknown. Testimony . ”טשענסטאָכאָוו
יידישע מוסרים, אונטערוועלט מענשן, אונטערטראָגער, לאָבוזעס, אױסוווּרפֿן.
זייַן דינסט בייַ די אָקופאַנטן. (המשך)“ [Częstochowa. Jewish informers,
gangsters, henchmen, louts, reprobates. In the service of the occupiers.
(Continued.)]
[1] Częstochowa
Jewish informers, gangsters, henchmen, louts, reprobates. In the service of
the occupiers.
(continued)⁵³⁴
The Jewish ghetto in Częstochowa has remained as it was – neither walled nor
fenced in. Large signs in four languages (Polish, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish)
at the entrance to the ghetto inform the population that entry of Aryans is
forbidden and that trespassing and leaving the ghetto by the Jews is punishable
by death. The Hebrew sign reads: Yehudim ha-ozvim et tehum ha-moshav
ha-yehudi she-lo ke-dat yadunu le-mitah.⁵³⁵
Recently various events, which bear a political character, occurred there.
Many Poles from among the Polish intelligentsia and some Bundists were
arrested. A gunfight between Poles and Germans took place in the second
half of March near the Jasna Góra monastery.⁵³⁶ [2] Nothing more precise is
known. People in the town say that, as a result, the Germans led out in an
unknown direction all the residents of the two houses, from which the shots
seem to have been fired.
The Jewish ghetto has been recently reduced by four houses on Katedralna
Street, numbers 12, 13, 14, and 17. Hence the houses which connected the
ghetto via various passageway gaps have been lost.
Jews can still move around on the Aryan side on the basis of passes,
in which the directions, hours, and streets are indicated; the holder of such
534 Most probably, reference to Doc. 65, in the same handwriting.
535 (Hebrew) Jews leaving the Jewish area of residence illegally will be sentenced to death.
536 Beginning in the seventeenth century, the most revered centre of Roman Catholic cult in Poland.
