60 years and over were sent away “in an unknown direction”. The rest were
thrown into the Łódź ghetto.⁵⁹⁵
The same thing happened to the Jews of Łask and Brzeziny.⁵⁹⁶
In Koluszki⁵⁹⁷ 40 Jews were murdered by the Germans.
ARG I 32 (Ring. I/813)
Description: original (2 copies), handwritten (LEG*), pencil, Yiddish, 150×195,
minor damage and fragments missing, 10 sheets, 10 pages. On p. 1 (first copy),
the words “2 pages” in Yiddish, added (in ink) by H.W.
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29 May 1942, Warsaw ghetto. Oyneg Shabes bulletin entitled ”די מגילה פֿון
פייַן און אױסראָטונג“ [“Chronicle of Torment and Extermination”] containing
information about the situation of Jews in various localities in the territory
of the Republic of Poland in April and May 1942.
[1] 29 May 1942
Chronicle of Torment and Extermination
Otwock⁵⁹⁸ – Soon after Pesach there began a savage hunting of Otwock Jews
by the Germans, which continued, with some interruptions, until Shavuot.⁵⁹⁹
More than 500 Jews were seized on the streets and from their houses and
sent to Treblinka to the death [x]⁶⁰⁰ camp (there are two camps in Treblinka:
a labour camp and a murder site). In the execution site the murderers do not
kill by shooting because it is a “waste of bullets”; instead, the executions are
595 See Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, pp. 88–90.
596 See Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, pp. 44–47, 72–74.
597 Koluszki (Tomaszów Mazowiecki County).
598 Otwock (Warsaw County).
599 In 1942 Passover fell on 2 and 8 April, and the Feast of Weeks on 22 May.
600 [x] labour.
