the help of various building tools left in the peasants’ huts, the Judenrat had
trained a group of craftsmen, such as joiners, bricklayers, etc.
When the accommodations issue was almost resolved, the Judenrat set
about organising social welfare and began finding people jobs for the winter
months.
Social welfare: a family of up to 3 persons received weekly, free of charge:
5 kg bread
3 marks
1 kg wheat flour
1 kg meat
¼ kg sugar
firewood
and as many potatoes as needed
Some of these products were bought by the Judenrat. The rest, such as
potatoes, it requisitioned from what had been left in the peasants’ cellars, and
distributed them in rations.
A family of up to 6 persons received:
8–9 kg bread
5 marks
1½–2 kg wheat flour
2 kg meat
½ kg sugar
firewood
potatoes
After the Judenrat approached the Landrat regarding employment for
workers from the Jewish colony, it obtained 80 jobs in the forest, cutting [. . .]
Payment was made in slash wood, some of which the workers used for themselves, and the rest was taken by the Judenrat.
As already mentioned, the Judenrat [. . .] had to contend with a very bad
element in its midst and with the accomplices of the infamous [. . .] Laskowski
[. . .] through letters, they contacted Laskowski, who for some time was [. . .]
in the ghetto [. . .] he sent [. . .] denunciations
[12] I. They sent a denunciation that the Judenrat had given permission
for slaughtering, that several cows and goats were slaughtered each week, and
that there was a shoykhet who slaughtered the animals ritually. As a result,
gendarmes came to the village and confiscated 5 head of cattle, 30 goats,
