where work was paid for, Jews gladly went to work, and the entrepreneurs
were extremely satisfied with the Jewish labour. As to the sending of Jewish
workers away to Lublin, it is shameful to say that the Jewish representatives
in the region, that is in Grójec, treated the Jews treacherously in the adjacent
towns; instead of taking care of all the Jews from the region and treating them
equally, they threw the hard work onto Jews from other towns. This way, Góra
Kalwaria was forced to provide 170 Jews, which for them meant a sacrifice. But
the Judenrat struggled with its powers and only sent an additional 40 workers.
This cost extraordinary efforts. The work at the placówki continued until
late autumn. In the above mentioned was included the help for the workers
in the camps, and further demands from the Judenrat and from the Jews of
Góra Kalwaria were not possible.
Now comes a separate chapter: bath facility, hospital and the isolation
building.
[8] The authorities, the district Health Office, commanded that as soon
as possible, within several weeks, a modern bath facility should be erected,
with showers and a delousing furnace. This was very costly. They began building,
and further taxed the Jews of Góra Kalwaria 35,000 zlotys, and with
great effort, within 6 weeks, the bath facility was erected, a paragon for the
entire region.
And when it was complete, they had to start building the isolation
house, which was converted from a bet hamidrash (as in other towns, in Góra
Kalwaria the bet hamidrash was [no longer] open for its own purposes). Walls
were installed in the bet hamidrash creating separate rooms. The work, due
to sending the Jews away, was not completed, but 90 per cent of it was done,
and this cost many thousand zlotys.
The municipal general hospital was used for the ill. There were only several
cases of typhus, equal among Christians and Jews – among Christians,
proportionally more. The municipal physician and the sanitary supervisor,
both Poles, did not help Jews in this respect at all; on the contrary, they sometimes
undermined the work, sought that it should cost us more, and in many
cases hurried us greatly…
With the start of winter 1940, began the calamity of the resettlement of
Jews into specifically designated streets and the issue of dwellings. In particular,
the Jewish populations of the adjacent villages and communities,
up to 30 families, were resettled. So, the Judenrat had to use its power and
