individual Jewish professionals are involved in these conversations. Regardless
of the constant contact, when necessary, contact is maintained by various
German committees, which visit the ghetto for the purposes of instruction
or vetting, and even propaganda.
It is worth mentioning that there is an internal telephone network in
the ghetto, consisting of 100 phones serviced by the ghetto’s own telephone
exchange.
An internal social or economic system was not imposed by the authorities
on the Community; it established just [. . .] their own. All agencies of a regular
[. . .] been running, including the courts, the prosecutor’s office, chimney
sweep guild etc... Announced [. . .] civilian.
Food supply
Around mid-December 1940, supplying food [. . .] very smoothly. Since
then, there have been complications [. . .] observed on the other side of
the wires.
[2] The regular allocation consists exclusively of bread. Until recently,
the authorities provided the ghetto with bread as such; now they provide only
flour, which is baked in the ghetto bakeries. There are over fifty bakeries.
Earlier, the rations of bread used to be uneven. Tailors received 800
grams per day, hard-working labourers 600 grams, while the rest of the population
— 400 grams. Currently, the standard is the same for all, and it is
400 grams per day. Delivery is regular, and it is carried out without problems.
The bread is good, much whiter than in Warsaw.
Allocation of other foods is done adequately, but irregularly. The Community
receives potatoes, groats, salt, rapeseed oil, sugar, semolina, and vegetables
to distribute, as well as meat and sausage. There is a deficiency, but there
is no question of anything lacking. The situation is the worst in the case of fats
and milk, which are allocated only for the hard-working, the sick, and children.
The state of public supply is best evidenced by the situation in the meat
section. In addition to the allocation of meat for kitchens — serving a very
significant proportion of the population (almost 30 per cent) — and supplied
to the population by Community shops, the Community is able to consistently
deliver meat twice a week for the hard-working, and the Community officials
and their families. It is, of course, horsemeat, typically of good quality, delivered
under the supervision of the Community veterinarian.
