29 Early 1942, Warsaw ghetto. Anonymous. Collection of materials entitled
צװײ און אַ האַלבע יאָר מלחמה“ ” [“Two and a half years of war”]. Questionnaires,
lists of names, outlines for a study on the life of the Jewish population
during the war and occupation (1939–1941)
[1] Two and a half years of war
What has been our experience of two and a half years of war? What dark
sides of our life have revealed themselves in that time?
Are those aspects apparent to the same extent in Warsaw and in the
provinces, or do the examples from the provinces show something else
as well?
What bright sides of our life have revealed themselves during the war?
The prospects for the [. . .]
What form will be taken by the resolution of [. . .] issue of Eretz Israel [. . .]
[t]wo and a half [. . .] go our [. . .] work of the [. . .]
[2] home. But what will this unavoidable future look like? What place will
the Jewish people occupy in the post-war world? How and where will the twothousand-
year exile of the Jews find its solution? Will there finally be an end
to bestial antisemitism, the nightmare of civilised humanity? What will the
Jewish territorial centre in Eretz Yisrael look like? What sort of social system
will govern the new post-war world? These and dozens of similar questions
plague and torment every thinking Jew. And above all, what must we do now
[. . .] to be ready for the times to come? [. . .] torture each of [. . .]
[3] [. . .]The first made [. . .] our life, it brought [. . .] power of the fists in the
ghetto [. . .] autonomous life [. . .] and too late [. . .] obedience [. . .] further [. . .]
complete [. . .]
[4] At the moment, when the regular policy in economy is directed at exclusion
of the Jewish population from the economic process, it gives [. . .] to the
Jewish will to live not only the stopping [. . .] professional status, but it also
makes possible [. . .] to create new possibilities for Jewish workers [. . .] at the
time of everybody’s striving [. . .]
