Mr Maximilian Jezierski¹³²⁷
Post Office in Brwinów
via Grodzisk Mazowiecki¹³²⁸
District: Warsaw
My dear friend!
I can finally write to you. I receive letters from many people and everyone
rightly expects me to write back; that is why my friend (Maximilian Jezierski)
sometimes waits for a letter longer than I would like him to wait.
It is hard to believe that I have time and energy to write private letters
after a day of administrative work and paperwork. Because of neuritis in my
right arm, I cannot write too much by hand and I am at the mercy of my secretary,
Miss Hilde Friedlaender¹³²⁹. Fortunately, I am not in disgrace with Miss
Hilde Fr. too often, because she relieves me very eagerly of my work. I am very
happy that in December 1941 I managed to intercede for her with the authorities:
she and her mother were supposed to start their journey.
I know that you are genuinely engaged in everything that concerns me,
so I would like to tell you that our doctor has recommended that I should stay
at home for eight days. I have torn the ankle joint of my left leg. I was walking
along the corridor in the building at Mausegasse 7 at a marching pace, when
I stumbled over a doormat. Please, believe me that it was my first ‘incautious
step.’ However, I did not stay long in bed, because ‘while the cat’s away, the
mice will play’.
Our physician, Dr Kerb,¹³³⁰ who lives in a privileged mixed marriage,¹³³¹
is going to leave us voluntarily and go back to the Reich to his wife and
1327 Maximilian Jezierski, since 1927 employee of the branch office of HICEM in Warsaw. Its Gdańsk office was opened in March 1939.
1328 Grodzisk Mazowiecki (Sochaczew County).
1329 Hilde Friedalender (1900–1944) — deported to Theresienstadt on 27 June 1943, and from there on 9 October 1940 to Auschwitz, where she was murdered.
1330 Dr Karl Kerb. See Żydzi na terenie Wolnego Miasta, p. 281.
1331 In the Third Reich, Jewish spouses from mixed marriages were prevented from being taken to concentration camps, deportations, and executions. Pursuant to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 and two decrees issued by the Minister of the Interior in 1941, Jews, Gypsies, and persons of mixed descent were deprived of citizens’ rights. For some time, Jewish spouses from mixed marriages and their children formed a half-way group, excluded from German society, but not persecuted as other discriminated groups.
