in partnership with them, (j) smuggling – in what forms? cWhat branches?
Agriculture?c
2. The nouveaux riches: How did they acquire their wealth? By what means?
Names of very wealthy nouveaux riches
3. What happened to the pre-war rich and their wealth?
F. The expulsion (give date)
1. Rumours about expulsion (planned or sudden?)
2. How many people were expelled?
3. The course of the expulsion and the destination
4. Population: the elderly, young people, children
5. Humaneness and cruelty on the part of them
6. Attitude of the Poles
7. What became of the mentally ill and hospital patients?
8. What is the approximate value of the Jewish property left behind?
9. Arrival and welcome in Warsaw (first aid, life at the refugee station)
G. Party workers, A.Y.,³⁴⁷ other organisations
1. How many members did the p[arty] organisation have before the war?
2. What happened to members in the first days of the war (mobilised, left the
shtetl, etc.)?
3. What happened to the local party archives, flag, library, Jewish primary
school, party stamp, etc.?
4. Interesting events in party life during the war and under the rule of them
5. How many party members went off to “the other side”³⁴⁸ and what happened
to them?
6. A list – comprehensive if possible – of martyred party members: under
what circumstances did they die; were they given Jewish burial?
7. What happened to the youth organisation and its property? Hehalutz,
hachshara training settlements, etc.?
8. What happened to other proletarian and bourgeois organisations?
9. Was there a discussion in the local organisation regarding staying put or
leaving for the “other side”?
347 Possibly the initials of Agudat Yisrael.
348 I.e. to Soviet-occupied territory.
