12. Extortion of money and valuables.
13. Office to Combat Usury and Profiteering, the “Thirteen”.
14. The commissioner for secured houses on Leszno Street.⁴⁴⁶
15. Positions in the kehilla.
16. Interventions by “them” in Jewish institutions.
17. “Kohn and Heller”.
18. “Legal” corruption (partnership of councillors in various bakeries, marmalade
and honey factories) – the grant of franchises.
19. Malversation of bread coupons by administrators and rządcy.⁴⁴⁷
20. Housing committee łapówki.⁴⁴⁸
21. Corruption among the doctors and feldshers.⁴⁴⁹
22. Corruption among rabbis (the most recent scandal – the citron affair).
23. Thefts from parcels for refugee stations.
24. The matter of the parcels for Pesach 5701.⁴⁵⁰
25. Payment of protection money by firms.
26. Corruption and demoralisation of porters.
27. Corruption in the Polish police: which firms have to buy off the Polish
police? – their share in the parówka racket, etc.
28. Cases of corruption in ŻTOS.
29. Cases of corruption in TOZ.
30. Cases of corruption in CENTOS.
31. Corruption in JEAS.
32. Institutions in which there is no corruption.
33. How can corruption be combated and in what way?
The work should provide a comprehensive picture of corruption in the ghetto.
Profiles should be given of: fixers, brokers, middlemen vis-à-vis various institutions.
The reasons for corruption, for example – low pay of employees in
446 Perhaps a reference to the Judenrat’s Department for Secured Properties (Wydział Rady Żydowskiej do spraw Zabezpieczonych Nieruchomości). Its office was on Grzybowska Street.
447 Rządca meldunkowy (Pol.) – registration clerk, responsible for making lists of residents of a given building. The position was independent of the administrator of the building, but the two could be held by the same person.
448 (Pol.) bribes.
449 Someone with very basic medical training who can perform simple medical procedures.
450 Pesach 5701 fell on 12–18 April 1941.
