smiling faces show that our purpose is being achieved. We also plan to take
even more care of the children. We are preparing a special playground, where
children will be able to learn and play in the open air.
We need funding!
This is why we appeal to you, Mother and Father!
Think about what we have told you, empathise with our words and
actions, and rush to the aid of children, who are the future of our nation.
Children’s Feeding Section
of the Department of Social Welfare
in Kosów
Kosów, April 1942
ARG I 807 (Ring. I/638)
Description: original, handwritten, mimeographed, Polish, 255×373 mm, minor
damages and pieces missing, 1 sheet, 1 page. The leaflet is decorated with a drawing of two children’s heads.
After October 1941, Kosów Lacki [?], Warsaw ghetto, Hanna Lewkowicz.
“Notatki o życiu wysiedleńców z Kalisza w Kosowie Lackim 1939–1941”
[Notes on the life of the resettled from Kalisz in Kosów Lacki during
1939–1941]. Arrival and stay of the resettled Jews, contacts with the locals,
housing conflicts, self-help organisations, aid from Warsaw, resettlement
of some of the former Kalisz residents to Sterdyń on 7 March 1940.
[1] sbHanna Lewkowicz
Notes on the life of the resettled from Kalisz in Kosów Lacki during
1939–1941sb¹²¹¹
1211 sb-sb Here and below, inserts made probably by Shmuel Bresław, perhaps indicated by the author (marked in the same way throughout the document). Hanna Lewkowicz is also the author of a testimony “Podróż do Rosji” [Journey to Russia] about an unsuccessful