Most of the Jews living on the “New Road” were wealthy. The losses were
estimated at tens of millions. The new refugees squeezed into a corner of
another Jew’s home, in another street. They “settled in” and “acclimatised
themselves”. The next morning, there was another order to leave Reymonta
Street, the same way as the previous day. That afternoon, the same order concerning the market place. The more it went on, the more brutal it became.
Fatally ill people, old men of 90, were thrown out. They laid them out in the
street. When the Judenrat saw that a cramped “ghetto” was to be established,
they tried to find out where it would be, so that people shouldn’t have to move
from one street to another. So they [. . .] to Ruter to inform them [38] where
Jews would be permitted to live. When they entered, he stamped his foot and
shouted, “Dogs, you will be completely [chased?] from the town.”
And so the Jews wandered from one street to another, and the wandering
became easier and easier, because there was nothing left to take with.
After a few days, the entire Jewish population was packed into a single street,
Limanowskiego, which was later declared a “ghetto” for Jews, whose boundaries
Jews were not permitted to cross.
On New Year 1940, the whole population of Radomsko was issued passes.
The cost for non-Jews was 50 groszes, for Jews 10 zlotys. The Jewish passes were yellow, with a large stamp on them, “Jude”.
ARG I 983 (Ring. I/901)
Description: duplicate (2 copies), handwritten (U*), pencil, Yiddish, 148×210 mm,
much minor damage and fragments missing, 76 sheets, 76 pages.
Edition based on the first copy of the duplicate, 38 sheets, 38 pages.
