the women, who gave away the money [. . .] take as much as they could carry
in their hand. During [. . .] money and everybody was taking [. . .] a list of the
rich Jews was read out [. . .] [2] We stopped in Gocławek. A tall gendarme gave
some money to a Polish policeman to [buy] bread, sausage, sweets, and gingerbread cookies, which he then distributed. [. . .] poor children from Gocławek.
[. . .] arrived [. . .] from Warsaw.
ARG I 938 c (Ring. I/501)
Description: duplicate, handwritten (KK*), ink, Polish, 154×200 mm, fragments
legible, 1 sheet, 2 pages. See also the description of Doc. 171.
After 27 March 1942, Warsaw ghetto, Sara and Shimen Powsinoga, and
Mala Wiśnia, accounts recorded by Nekhemia Tytelman. Deportation of
Jews from Okuniew and Miłosna to the Warsaw ghetto.
[1] 27 March 1942
Sara and Shimen Powsinoga from Okuniew relate:
Okuniew, a small town, 18 km outside of Warsaw, numbered 84 Jewish families,
and almost the same number of Polish [families]. With the newcomers
from various burnt kehillahs and refugees, the Jews recently numbered
400 people.¹²⁴⁷
During the entire time of the war and occupation, we knew of the great
slaughter and evil only from the accounts of those passing through, fleeing
Jews whom we warmed up and fed, in their great desolation, in the Jewish
homes. It often happened that for entire nights we went about among the broken
and desperate Jews. Cooked food for them. Saw to it that they have a bed
[on which] to sleep through the night, so that on the following day they would
have strength to go on further.
1247 According to Okuniew Committee for Aid to Jews, on 14 January 1941, Okuniew had approximately 450 Jewish inhabitants, including many refugees. See AŻIH, ŻSS, 211/750, p. 1
