have been living in Gdańsk in orderly conditions and are treated objectively
and loyally. There are still 249 Jews remaining in Gdańsk, and they have been
brought together in one house and an old age home.¹³²³ It is hard to say how
long Jewish funds will last, but it will certainly be quite a long time, since the
number of Jews has fallen so sharply.
Warsaw, 1 May 1941
ARG I 738 (Ring. I/1014)
Description: duplicate (2 copies), handwritten (MS*), pencil, Yiddish,
147×208 mm, 4 sheets, 4 pages. In the margins the sign “□” (green ink).
Edition based on the first copy of duplicate, 2 sheets, 2 pages.
After 12 May 1941, Warsaw ghetto, author unknown, ”רייַזע באַריכט. דאַנציג
וואַרשע“ – [Report on a journey from Gdańsk to Warsaw]. Resettlement
of the Jews from Gdańsk (from 28 February 1941) and description of the
individual stages of the journey to the Warsaw ghetto via transit camps
in Tczew and Toruń.
[1] Report on a journey from Gdańsk to Warsaw
On 28 February 1941 at 4 o’clock in the morning, two Gestapo and two policemen
arrived and gave us a deadline of three hours to pack all our things and
prepare for a journey of several days. At 7.30 a.m. we arrived at the station by
a compulsory qualification examination. The 395 people deemed fit for transport were deported to the Warsaw ghetto on 28 February and 1 March 1941. See ibidem, p. 272.
1323 Beginning in the summer of 1940, there was a ghetto in Gdańsk. It consisted of one building, the old granary on Mausegasse 7 (today Owsiana Street). Another building, on Milchkannengasse 26 (today Stągiewna Street), former property of a Jewish woman from Warsaw, G. Luksemburg, was used as a residence for the old and sick from August 1939; in September 1939 it had 130, in August 1940 — 140 inhabitants. The majority of them were deported to the General Government in December 1942. The remaining six persons lived in the building on Mausegasse till the summer of 1943. See ibidem, p. 281.
