Sisters and brothers in the ghetto!
Concerned about your well-being and to ensure that no one suffers hunger
in the ghetto, I wish to enable every resident to purchase the first two
rations from the food coupons.
Consequently, I have decided:
1) to pay out, by way of a Hanukkah benefit, to every individual who
receives a welfare benefit a sum enabling the purchase of both rations specified
on vouchers No 81 and 82 of their food coupons.
Moreover, to pay out, by way of a Hanukkah benefit, the sum of 10.56
marks to the following groups of people for them to purchase 8 food rations
for their families:
2) Community clerks who worked throughout November 1940, but earned
less than 90 marks during that month and have a family to support,
3) workers employed in workshops and factories who worked in November
1940 but earned no more than 90 marks during that month and have a family
to support;
4) labourers employed by my Department of Public Works in November
1940 who have a family to support.
Consequently, I order directors of the individual Departments of Labour
to submit lists within 2 days into the hands of my secretary on Bałucki
Marketplace. I also order the Department of Benefits to make sure than
within 2 days, the Postal Department can begin to deliver the Hanukkah benefit
to the individuals who receive benefits, with that campaign scheduled to
conclude within 7 days.
The total sum allocated for the Hanukkah benefit is approx. 450,000 marks,
which in my difficult financial situation is an enormous sum. Nevertheless,
I sacrificed that sum to slightly improve your situation.
I hope that all the clerks and workers can appreciate the value of this
benefit, and that they shall perform their work dutifully for their own benefit
and for the benefit of the entire ghetto.
As you know, I have been trying to find employment for labourers and
specialists as well as to employ unskilled workers.
This problem cannot be solved at once, but so far approximately 16,000
people have been working in factories and workshops, as Community clerks
and workers, as well as at public works, so that approximately 60,000 people
can support themselves. Every day new workshops are opened and in the
