KOLUSZKI
28 January 1942, Koluszki, [Leon]. Letter to an unknown person in the
Warsaw ghetto. The situation in the Koluszki ghetto; request for information
about the Markowicz family, financial support, and a railway pass.
Dear ones!
How are you, why aren’t you writing, how is business and health, how are
the Markowiczes, we have been doing much worse lately, they are shooting
for leaving the ghetto, there’s been some victims already, and we’ve had some
financial loss they took 3,000 zlotys worth of merchandise, so we’re left without
any money, this is why I’m writing to you so you are kind enough to [. . .]
[live] what we have with you, send us by post because if there is something to
be made now [2] we do not have the money to buy it so that we have to make do
with the last few coins. So do not hesitate and do it now. We have no news from
Nalek and his wife, God only knows where they are. Icek Honig has been doing
worse lately, there’s nothing to be earned and they have no money. I hear that
in Warsaw you can get a pass to travel by train. Perhaps Markowicz could find
out if it is true let [. . .] need such pass cost for a month so we could make one.
[3] So I’m asking you again arrange everything and write us soon.
I am ending this letter sending love for you all, Leon
Koluszki, 28 January 1942.
15 victims. –
Additionally, to the remark about 15 victims. Currently, leaving is
impossible.⁷⁴⁰
ARG I 797 (Ring. I/560)
Description: original, handwritten, ink, Polish, 143×204 mm, minor damage and
missing text fragments, 2 sheets, 3 pages.
740 Two lines added in pencil in a different handwriting. “15 victims” crossed out in the original.
