workforce of Többens workshop on Prosta Street were not there, as the
registration had been conducted there as early as on Saturday), Hallman,⁹⁴⁶
Hoffmann,⁹⁴⁷ Oschmann,⁹⁴⁸ Hermann Brauer,⁹⁴⁹ Heeresuntenkunftverwaltung⁹⁵⁰
workshops: Werk 1, 2, 3, brush makers, metal workers, paper factory workers,
Judeks, Feliks,⁹⁵¹ Doering, and employees of the Judenrat all arrived that
way. Some tens of thousands of people were squeezed into the few streets
of the new ghetto, where they awaited their fate. Miła Street, Niska Street,
Parysowski Square, and Lubeckiego Street were crammed full with crowds
of men, women, and children.
Germans with Ukrainians and Latvians, who were to guard the new
border of the ghetto – the enlarged Umschlagplatz – appeared by the Jewish
posts at 10 o’clock. Immediately afterwards numerous rifle shots could be
heard on the other side of the border. It was the Germans carrying out their
threat and executing the Jews who had not managed to move to the new area.
Around 11 o’clock SS-men launched a “registration”, which lasted an entire
week, that is, from Sunday the 6th to Saturday the 12th of September inclusive.
The purpose of that “registration” was to catch (Durchkaemmung – combing
out) a new quota of victims for Treblinka from among the masses of workshop
workers and the unemployed. Throughout that week the Germans sent up to
50,000 Jews to Treblinka: men women and children. According to news coming
from Treblinka during that period, the local house of death⁹⁵² operated
almost 24 hours a day, because the constant machinations with the German
and blue police plus the joint robbing of the Jewish masses gave rise to such
946 “Fallemann” in the original; probably a mistake.
947 Wilfried Hoffmann’s workshop at Nowolipki Street 49 and 51a. In the summer of 1942 it
employed 1,200 people. It produced SS uniforms and did upholstery.
948 Oschmann–Leszczyński’s workshop at Nowolipie Street 18. It housed a factory that
produced caps for the army and a laundry for uniforms. In the summer of 1942 it employed
2,000 people.
949 A complex of factories, which included a metal, shoemaking, saddlery, tanning, and
tailoring workshops. It was located in the block of buildings at Nalewski Street 28–38
and employed 2,000 people.
950 Heeresunterkunftsverwaltung (HUV) – department of the German Army dealing with
accommodation of troops. It employed Jewish labourers to prepare and deliver supplies
to military quarters.
951 Perhaps Anna Melita Feliks’s small textile workshop on Nowolipie Street 80.
952 Meaning: gas chamber.
