and children to walk faster all night long in the frost. On the way, 7 children
froze to death, and dozens of people with frostbitten arms and legs abandoned
their packs by the wayside, not having the strength to carry them any
further. Some did not survive the frost. Thus 300 families, as many as 1,000
souls, were driven out.
2 May 1941
ARG I 804 (Ring. I/832)
Description: duplicate (2 copies), handwritten (BW*), pencil, Yiddish,
148×210 mm, 6 sheets, 6 pages.
In the margins, a sign consisting of two concentric half circles, one within the
other (ink).
Edition based on first copy of duplicate, 3 sheets, 3 pages.
STRYKÓW
After March 1941, Warsaw ghetto, author unknown, “Przeżycia Żydów
Strykowian aż do przybycia do Warszawy” [Experiences of the Stryków
Jews until their arrival in Warsaw], with attachment referring to their
situation in September 1940: “Wiersz z życia Żydów w Osiedlu dla Żydów
w Głownie »Małe państewko«” [Poem regarding the life of the Jews in the
Jewish Settlement in Głowno called ‘Little State’].
[1] Experiences of the Stryków Jews until their arrival in Warsaw.
The town of Stryków,¹⁰⁹⁵ located near the great factory city of Łódź, is one of
the oldest Polish towns with a Jewish population. (The synagogue in Stryków
was built over 500 years ago.)¹⁰⁹⁶ Famous rabbis used to live there¹¹⁹⁷.
1095 The ghetto in Stryków was established in the spring of 1940 and existed until April–May
1942. Approximately 300 of its inhabitants were deported to the ghetto in Brzeziny.
1096 Jews settled in Stryków probably only in the 18th century; the formal community was established in 1806.
