39 No date, Warsaw ghetto. Anonymous. “Rzemiosło i drobny przemysł (tezy)”
[“Craftsmanship and small industry (theses)”]
[1] Craftsmanship and Small Industry
(theses)
I. Jewish craftsmanship during the period directly preceding the war (general
description, attempts at exporting)
II. The outflow of craftsmen and small-scale industry labourers in September
1939
III. The situation of craftsmanship right after the arrival of the Germans in
Warsaw (chaos on the market, off-and-on employment, unemployment,
labour shortage)
IV. Craftsmen employed at German work details
V. Processes of individual adjustment (to the establishment of the ghetto)
a) in particular branches
b) how did craftsmen obtain raw materials
c) the new type of client; establishing contact with the market
VI. See below⁴⁷¹
VII. Organisation of craftsmen.
a) the Germans’ attitude to craftsmen at large
b) organisational issues in Polish craftsmanship
c) causes and sources of the establishment of the Union of Jewish
Craftsmen⁴⁷²
d) Union directors (old activists and new people)
VIII. First manifestations of the activity of the Union of Jewish Craftsmen
a) internal-organisational issues
b) production for the contingent market (footwear)
c) the sending of craftsmen to work details
471 See point XIV.
472 Związek Rzemieślników Żydów w Warszawie (Pol.) – official organisation that united all owners of handicraft workshops in the ghetto; membership was compulsory. Its tasks included: control of raw materials’ distribution, organisation of collective workshops, and fee collection. It also provided aid in various forms, mostly to displaced people.
