[went] to court, to prison, a square and [. . .] [2] Reconnaissance flights —
Włocławek the third line of defence — and yet on the 6th the panic reached
its zenith — people were buying carts, horses, motor cars to flee in — a flight
psychosis — a psychosis of mass execution of Germans — as an intellectual
I was also very much afraid of my fate — as a wyrobnik¹⁰⁰⁵ [. . .] — a popular
Włocławek lawyer, chairman [. . .] for people — law — the situation looked like
it was already impossible for him to leave — left by chance on a truck going
to Warsaw — in the night of the 5th to 6th — at 4 a.m. — telephone call from
her husband in Lwów — analogies with 1914 — people made vast fortunes
and got rid of everything — bread already hard to get — [. . .] and louse-infested
— peasant women brought vegetables to the market — everything left
at home — journey took 28 hours instead of 4 — [. . .] street lamps — retreating
troops on the road — all villages and towns burnt — flames — [. . .] —
hospital in Łowicz — neighbourhood around the hospital — nobody wanted
to defend — there was an engineer with us — he went mad — aeroplanes all
the time — we had to hide in the potato [fields] — 7 a.m. — near Żyrardów in
a peasant’s hut — ¼ loaf of bread — a few eggs and sausage (episode in court —
for us) — (my conclusions from the first two days of war) — taken away —
scenes on the road — giving birth — cries — step by step — an overcrowded
room near Raszyn¹⁰⁰⁶ — left standing [outside] with my luggage.
(b)
[1] On Sunday, 10 September, when it seemed to everybody that everything was
already [. . .] [the bodies of] 3 people who had been killed were brought from
the village of [. . .]: the dairyman Aron and his son, and also an unknown person
from Łódź, who were buried in the main cemetery.
That same Sunday afternoon, a certain Janowski from Łódź, a goldsmith,
arrived, stayed with me overnight and left for Łódź the next morning.
ARG I 918 (Ring. I/674/10, Ring. I/423
Description:
a) original, handwritten (H.W.*), ink, in Yiddish, 158×179 mm, 1 sheet, 2 pages.
b) original, handwritten, ink, in Yiddish, 155×88 mm, damages and missing text,
1 sheet, 1 page.
1005 (Polish) worker, labourer.
1006 Raszyn (Warsaw County).
