homes. And Niewiadomski messed with the butchers! He ran to the gendarmerie
and told them where he had found meat. The gendarmes came
and requisitioned the meat. And the worst thing was that he accepted
a bribe and [28] then informed on that person, who then had to relinquish
the merchandise.
Niewiadomski did separate business in the bathhouse. As he [. . .] general
bathing of the entire population, the following scenes took place in the bathhouse.
Dressed in a white apron (as the boor saw fit), Niewiadomski inspects
women’s hair. He spots a more elegantly dressed woman. He inspects her hair.
– You have lice… – he says.
– Why, it can’t be true! Look again. It’s impossible!
– I know what I’m talking about! Barber! Cut this woman’s hair!
What does that terrified woman fearing to lose her hair do? She offers
the barber a bribe. The barber is Jewish. Besides, that was the whole point.
He charges [29] as much as he can. The smarter the woman’s clothes, the better.
A better dressed woman will pay more. This business is done together
with Niewiadomski. He gets half of the bribes. This is what Niewiadomski’s
earnings [. . .] came from.
We all had had enough of him. He pestered the Sanitary Commission.
He wrote daily reports to Dr Mierzejewski about the filth in the flats and in
the ghetto. The doctor could not bear to look at him. He shouted at the paramedics
that they were not fulfilling their duties, but deep in his heart he
wished him sudden death. You should have seen these reports, like chicken
scribble with spelling mistakes. We could not stand him any longer. He was
everywhere. He saw everything. At night, he drank in the ghetto in the company
of Jewish girls. Drunk, he made a fuss. Finally, his [30] sof ⁹⁷⁶ came.
Around mid-February he got really drunk. Barely walking, staggering,
he went to Chairman A. Rozenberg’s office. It was 10 p.m. Niewiadomski came
in, sat back in an armchair, took out some leftovers from his pocket and
tucked in. In the meantime, he shouted and made various demands from
the chairman. He wanted to smash everything around him. They did not
know what to do with him. In the end, the chairman called for the gendarmerie.
In less than five minutes, the Jewish police brought gendarmes and
Hilfspolizei. They approached him and asked what he was doing in the ghetto
976 (Hebrew) end.
