the Community paid its employees an allowance of 50 per cent of salary.
Repayment of the allowance was arranged in several monthly instalments.
The number of officials of the Community is approximately 3,000.
The strong financial situation of the Community enabled it to obtain
a two-million loan from the authorities, which is to be paid in manufactured
goods in subsequent business periods.
The introduction of our own currency had the following advantages:
1. released a considerable sum of marks from the internal market
2. enabled regulation of prices on the private market.
School system
A school system operates in the ghetto. In schools, the languages
of instruction are Polish and Yiddish. There is even a high school, which
has recently organised graduation exams and issued relevant certificates.
The authorities advise that particular emphasis be placed on English and
French for reasons of emigration.
30 January [19]41
Dr/sb.
ARG I 924 (Ring. I/ 60)
Description: original or duplicate, typewritten, Polish, 223×287 mm, minor damage
and missing text fragments, 4 sheets, 4 pages. On p. 4, a handwritten note
“Mr Counsellor Winter” [?] and typewritten note “Dr/sb.”
Pp. 1 and 2 are originals, pp. 3 and 4 are carbon copies.
Date unknown, Warsaw ghetto, author unknown, ”עפיזאָדן פֿון לאָדזשער
געטאָ“ [Episodes from the Łódź ghetto]. Cases of police shooting Jews who
approached the ghetto borders.
[1] Episodes from the Łódź ghetto
When the ghetto was surrounded by [barbed] wire fencing, 2 Volksdeutsche
who formed the ghetto Hilfspolizei were stationed at the corner of every
