voice. What has happened? The cries sound again. Finally the door opens [. . .]
her old father comes in. He has changed [4] beyond recognition. An hour of
torment has aged him [. . .] dozens of years [. . .] totally confused. His face is
swollen and covered with blood. He looks as if he had escaped from hell. [. . .]
run up crying to their father. They kiss him on his hands and face. They hug
him. They are thanking God to see him alive [. . .] the gendarme drags the
father back into the search room. Among [his?] things [. . .] to which he does
not want to confess. He accuses the rabbi of [. . .] Mr R. denies, terrified. Why,
before the search he [. . .] The gendarme hits him. The mother, Mr R.’s wife,
interferes [. . .] so outraged [. . .] shouts partly in Yiddish, partly in German,
mixing in even [. . .] [T]he underwear and clothes are old and worn out. I have
nothing [. . .] truth [. . .] Even the Germans need to acknowledge it. The sack
is [. . .] cleared of suspicions [. . .] newcomers for a search [. . .] and asks: Is it
true [. . .] the search [. . .] appealed to you? Very much, they answer. [. . .] satisfied? Yes [. . .] harm? No. Thank us. We are grateful [to you for the?] search.
Hail to [. . .] The face of the gendarme was glowing, [. . .] with a smile of satisfaction [. . .] from the chest of the survivors [. . .] are already downstairs.
As fast as they can [. . .] call them upstairs again. Deathly paleness [. . .] the
end of torment? Mr R. drags himself back [. . .] knife and he cuts his beard
with the knife [. . .] [after?] the operation he pushes him down the stairs [. . .]
They flee as fast as they can. They sit on the cart and set out. [They say their?]
prayers [to?] heaven. Great joy [. . .] It is three in the [. . .] under the wheels
[. . .] it is far to the settlement [. . .] onto the ground. [. . .]
7 May 1942
ARG I 733 (Ring. I/1220/4)
Description: original or duplicate, handwritten, Polish, 196×345 mm, substantial
damages and missing parts; fragments of the same sheets are preserved separately, in some cases their place is impossible to determine, 2 sheets, 4 pages.
