Treblinka.
Each day in the first half of May 300 Jews were brought to the camp, where
they were executed. Poles were captured and forced to dig and cover up the
pits. Many of the gravediggers were then murdered by the Germans.
ARG I 35 (Ring. I/472)
Description: original, handwritten (different styles of handwriting, including
Hersh Wasser’s), ink, pencil, Polish, 220x353 mm, damage and missing fragments,
2 sheets, 2 pages.
Bulletins of 18 June 1942 and 3 July 1942 were paginated together (ink): “1–6”.
Attached is Hersh Wasser’s note: “Press service, bulletins of 18 June 1942,
3 July 1942, 18 July 1942”.
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8 July 1942, Warsaw ghetto, Oyneg Shabes bulletin on the situation of Jews
in various localities in the territory of the Republic of Poland during May–
June 1942.
[1] 8 July 1942
Ostrowiec Kielecki
On the night of 21–22 June this year the German soldiers leaving for the front
line conducted a pogrom on Poles waiting for a train. Led by 3 thugs, the
German soldiers abused all the passengers, hitting them with rifle butts and
bayonets. The Teutonic “knights” tortured the Polish women with particular
sadism, especially those whose hands were not toil worn. They also made
offensive comments regarding Polish women’s reluctance to perform any work,
particularly for the Germans, and their “inborn” passion for smuggling. That
brutal abuse of those helpless people lasted non-stop from 11:30 to 3 a.m., until
the departure of the army train. The floor and walls of the railway station were
profusely stained and splashed with blood of the maltreated victims.⁶⁹⁶
Rzeszów
The Jewish population was ordered to pay a levy in the amount of 1,000,000
zlotys for their purported “messing up” of the town. After it was paid on 11 June
696 This entry is the same as the one in the previous bulletin.
