Germans, and conducting a range of business with them, which earned them
real fortunes.
[. . .] the first group and we paid money [na przyjazd matki i siostry.]
Przyjechały came with the next group, only [. . .] January [. . .] so [. . .] was
[. . .] communication [. . .] January started [. . .] family in Łódź father [. . .]
was besieged, everyone gave [. . .] money, only to get their loved ones out of
Łódź. There were [26] [. . .] gassed to death. Including [. . .] In many [. . .] towns
[. . .] in Warsaw [. . .] punishable by death. It was not believed to be implemented,
but in fact they shot first 8, then 15 people, including women. At the
end of [19]41 a regulation was issued forcing us to hand in all furs.²¹⁷ Of course,
few people wanted to hand them in completely without compensation, so they
sold [. . .] next to nothing. Poles bought furs en gros.²¹⁸
As a result of more severe persecution [. . .] people expected the worst,
and again there began [. . .] rumours of deportation [. . .] when one night in
April, 48 Jews were taken from their homes and shot²¹⁹ [. . .]. Soon [. . .] calmed
down, and Jews [. . .] went to theatres, [. . .] and [. . .] From time to time some
people [. . .].
ARG I 916 (Ring. I/999)
Description: original or duplicate, handwritten, ink, Polish, 153×193 mm, damage
and missing fragments, 16 sheets, 26 pages. On p. 1, note by Hersh Wasser in
Yiddish (ink): “13 pages.”
instance, for omnibus transportation in the ghetto. They were both killed during the
Aktion in 1942.
217 On 25 December 1941 commissioner Auerswald ordered all Warsaw Jews to turn in their fur coats, other fur outerwear, and fur collars under threat of death. The total value of the fur coats, sheepskin coats, and fur collars requisitioned in the ghetto exceeded 50 million zlotys.
218 (French) on a large scale, wholesale.
219 On the night of 17–18 April 1942 the Gestapo murdered at least 52 people on the Warsaw ghetto streets. It was the first Aktion in the ghetto. See ARG I 584 and ARG II 299.
