dyktatorstwo⁶²⁴ — not a dirty word — Litzmannstadt-Getto (Das ist kein
Ghetto — Arbeitsstadt)⁶²⁵ — respect for work — workers given the right to
organise — delegates — troubles began — instead of a tailor — only a button
sewer by training — I allowed them (not wanting to give up any power) to
form a Beirat — if it really works, then well and good; if not — the Beirat began
demonstrations — in a prison — and locked them up — (a microstate in itself,
with good and bad sides — for 50 marks I got reports on them) — decided to
go on a work-to-rule. The joiners workshop instead of Friday — Thursday —
(full autonomy in the ghetto) — put on a padlock and it was shut — called
for a German commissioner. Heraus Lumpen⁶²⁶ — bottom line — peace in the
ghetto — end of politics in the factories (potatoes half an hour earlier). In the
factory kitchens 13, 15 and 20 pfennigs — the best barometer (apart from
money) is the stomach.
Three circumcisions, Purim, 500 grams extra — 400 grams of bread for all —
everyone has a ration card — every child (a bread card and a food card)
[2] 2 kilograms — 4 marks — children under 3 years of age special rations —
potatoes 22 pfennigs per kilogram. I give support with one hand and provisions
for two sectors, homes and kitchens, with the other, — a Jewish newspaper
every Friday — all my orders.
Not in the kitchens
4 kilograms of potatoes — 1 kilogram [. . .]
20 [. . .] groats
All kitchens. 800 (there is no lack of thieves) soups at 25 pfennigs, you can get
meat, vegetables — 50 pfennigs (until now 45 pfennigs) — the soup has to be
the same.
4 kitchens — 100% kosher cholent — under my rule, no political parties.
Thieves and underworld types other [. . .]
Sugar for a month — 350–450 grams; fats — extra. Butter, lard smuggled
in — every ghetto resident must eat his fill. All houses are mine,
30–40 pfennigs for cleaning — The sick — free infirmaries, hospitals free —
10 marks, no one pays rent; 5–6 people — receive public works benefits — up
to 15 marks –not deducted — [. . .] benefit — 1,100,000 marks a month —
624 (Polish) dictatorship.
625 (German) It is not a ghetto — [it is] a working city.
626 (German) “Get out, you wretches!”
