[2] Why was there no butter or eggs at the last market?
Residents of Piotrków noted with regret that last Tuesday peasants provided
neither butter nor eggs.
Therefore, the German military found beyond any doubt that it was
caused by the Jews of Piotrków who stood outside the city gates, far beyond
the city and on the roads, where they bought all food stocks from villagers
going to Piotrków before they reached the city. Of course, the Jews did not pay
even the slightest attention to the regulations on maximum prices.
What do the Jews care if the non-Jewish population has something to eat
or not. They only think how to fill their pantries, the criminal scum!
Do you realise, citizen of Piotrków, who your real enemy is?
The German authorities have immediately begun a vigorous operation
against the greedy Jewish gluttons and apostles seeking to take control of the
whole world. The German authorities have issued appropriate orders so that
such criminal deeds are never repeated.
ARG I 955d (Ring. I/787/3)
Description: original, printed, German, Polish, 157×276 mm, 1 sheet, 2 pages.
24 April 1942, Częstochowa, [Gołda]. Letter to Alfreda Winnik. Account
of a journey from Warsaw to Piotrków Trybunalski, attempts at crossing
the border to territories annexed to the Reich, arrests, and the ghetto
in Piotrków.
[1] Częstochowa, 24 April 1942
Dear Fredzia,
I cannot express how happy I was to receive your letter, which was also so long
and detailed, because I simply did not expect the reply to arrive so soon. Thank
you for the postage stamp; you did well by sending it and you indeed deserve
to be written back [. . .] sooner [. . .], but believe me, I do not even have a scrap
of paper. I barely managed to obtain this one from my friend, and now I have
to go to my cousin for him to tear some from his notebook because I would
