moved the common room to the hallway for the time being, and none of my
interventions has been effective. The head [of the Point] explains that it is an
order of the Gmina and refugees must make a living somehow, and that this
is only temporary).
As I have pointed out, the conditions for the common room are good: there is space, a stove, coal, glass in the windows; we only need clothes, shoes, medicines, ointments, and teaching aids.
I have a big influence on children in terms of their upbringing. They know I am bringing them a meal that is entirely for them, and they look forward to seeing me. Even weak orphans quickly rise from their bunks and run to the common room. They get soap, a piece each, some sugar, groats, so they follow all the instructions. The children clean the common room by themselves, scrub the buckets for porridge or mash, make sure that the convoy arrives on time for breakfast, pick up the products themselves from the storage, and [6] deliver them all to the Point.
There are very few begging children at the Point, only a few orphans go begging, and they are struggling with the fact that they have no money to buy their allocated bread rations and other products.
There is no patronage at the Point that would provide some money to buy meals for orphans and cover the cost of other needs, so these children are forced to beg. As for other children, those whose care-givers sent them out to beg, I managed to pull them away because I threatened to take their meals away. These children stay with me and work at the common room the whole time it is open. I am also taking care of sick children, who lie on their bunks because of exhaustion. I go down to their rooms, check to see if they are clean, and make sure they eat their meal.
Judenrat. On 15 November 1941, the organisation for the aid for the resettled was unified: all shelters were subordinated to the Section for the Care of Refugees of the Judenrat, including the ŻSS representatives. The reorganisation contributed to reducing the impact of social factors on care activities. From May to August 1941, the German administration granted additional allocations of products for soup kitchens thanks to which they could serve a considerable amount of free and discounted meals. Following the withdrawal of those extra allocations, kitchens had to reduce the total number of meals and most of the free and discounted meals. See Sakowska, Ludzie z dzielnicy zamkniętej, pp. 82–86, 88; Warsaw Ghetto. Guide to the Perished City, pp. 311–16.
