After July 1941 , Warsaw ghetto, Bernard Kampelmacher. Study “Grodzisk
Mazowiecki. Powroty Żydów do Grodziska po wysiedleniu”
[Grodzisk Mazowiecki. The returns of the Jews to Grodzisk after the
resettlement].
[1] GRODZISK MAZOWIECKI
The returns of the Jews to Grodzisk after the resettlement
The resettlement of all Jews from Grodzisk, who before had been brought
from the nearby localities, such as Brwinów, Nadarzyn, Podkowa Leśna, the
Grodzisk commune, and Milanówek,¹¹⁴⁹ took place on 20 February 1941. Some
of the smarter ones stayed in the new place in Warsaw for only several days.
They managed to return to Grodzisk under various pretexts and with help
from the Polish police and gendarmerie. They maintained contacts with the
Christian population and smuggled food products to Warsaw, buying them
for cash or exchanging them for clothing.
Moreover, two groups of operators were formed who sought permanent
settlement: 1) Hutt, Lewkowicz, and Gutglas, who came into contact with the
political and military authorities. Under the pretext of organising a new labour
battalion, they enable a number of smugglers to return in exchange for large
sums of money. 2) The Rajnberg’s group,¹¹⁵⁰ which brings in about a dozen carpenters in order to open a mechanised carpentry workshop working for the
army. Following that, other people are settling down here as well and some
of them return to their regular work as before the resettlement.
Around 1 April 1941, Hutt and Lewkowicz left with a group of 11 labourers
and 9 other people. The former and the latter paid dearly to leave, except
for the three poor labourers sent by the Grodzisk Landsmanshaft. The very
next day, the group of 11 men began to work in Heeresunterkunftsverwaltung,
where they were pushed and even beaten. The postman, whom they had
tipped for delivery of letters not long ago, was particularly cruel to them. For
several weeks the labourers received neither remuneration nor food for their
1149 Brwinów, Nadarzyn, Podkowa Leśna, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Milanówek (Sochaczew-Błonie County).
1150 Zurych Rajnberg, see Doc. 141.
