[. . .] Sunday afternoon, a scaffold, Tuesday 12th — Jewish auxiliary police.
(1) Grynbojm (2) Śliwkowicz Noyekh (3) Kryształ, and others.
Hanged: (1) Hirszberg Fishl (Felek), lived in Włocł[awek] in recent years, aged 44;
(2) Kon Naftali, aged 44; (3) Parzęczewski Eliezer, aged 25; (4) Lesman⁹⁹⁹ Chaim,
aged 66; (5) Moszkowicz, aged 55; (6) his son, Moszkowicz Yankev, aged 28;
(7) Szpringer Yankev, aged 50; (8) Kolski, aged 45; (9) Wyszegrodzki Yankev,
aged 46; (10) Szpigel Yankev, aged 40. Two died on the way.¹⁰⁰⁰ They went to
the chevra kadisha from 2 till 5 in the evening, and the Judenrat representative
had to cry out: “This is what is done to Jewish gold-mongers.” The victims
shouted Shema Israel and proclaimed their innocence. During the execution
Hirszb[erg] fell from the scaffold and begged for mercy. They refused [and
threw him] into the collective grave.
Poddębice¹⁰⁰¹ — 5, Bełchatów¹⁰⁰² — 10.
ARG I 54 (Ring. I/1089)
Description: original, handwritten (H.W.*), ink, Yiddish, 155×198 mm, 2 sheets,
3 pages. Attached is a note by Hersh Wasser in Yiddish: “Daily notes, May 1942,
H. Wasser”.
999 The name might be Lutman, see Shimon Huberband, Kiddush Hashem: Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Poland During the Holocaust, ed. Jeffrey S. Gurock, Robert S. Hirt, New Jersey-New York, 1987, p. 271.
1000 The ten Jews arrested in Łęczyca were first taken to prison in Łódź, where they were tried and sentenced to death. On the way back to Łęczyca two of them died, after which the Germans arrested two people in the town at random (Fishl Hirszberg and Yankev Szpigel), who were added to the group of condemned men and hanged on 17 March. See ibidem, pp. 266–273.
1001 In Poddębice (Łęczyca County) a similar execution took place on 17 March 1941, when 5 Jews were hanged. See ibidem, pp. 266–273.
1002 Ten Jews were also hanged in Bełchatów (Piotrków County) on 17 March 1941. See ibidem, pp. 272–273.
