From the outbreak of the war until the sealing of the ghetto
Date unknown, Warsaw ghetto, Eli ahu Gutkowski, . ”זיכרונות פֿון נאָנטן עבר
לאָדזש“ [Memories of the recent past. Łódź]. First days of the war. Arrest
of Jewish and Polish intelligentsia in December 1939. Imposition of visible
marking of the Jewish population. Deportation of Jews to Małopolska.
Flight of Łódź Jews to Warsaw.
[1] (a) Memories of the recent past. Łódź.
From the beginning of the war on 1 September 1939 to 18 November 1939³²
The outbreak of the German-Polish war (which spread in the following days and weeks to encompass more and more nations) opened a new page in our history of martyrdom, a page written by the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the bloodthirsty crusaders. Along with the collapse of the Polish Republic and the advance of the German army deep into Poland, savage and bloody persecutions of Jews began throughout the area along the German
32 On the events at the beginning of the war in Łódź, see also a memoir written by an anonymous author from Łódź, AŻIH, file No. 302/232.
