[After 20 July 1941], Warsaw ghetto, [Dr Moyshe Rejnhold],¹³⁶³ account of
the situation of the Jewish population on the border with East Prussia.
Information about cultural and social life, political activity, relations
with Poles and Germans before 1939. Description of the author’s flight
to Warsaw with a group of 13 people after the outbreak of war.
[1] #¹³⁶⁴ Lidzbark,¹³⁶⁵ Działdowo,¹³⁶⁶ Iława¹³⁶⁷ (Działdowo County),
Lautenburg, Soldau, Eylau (East Prussia) until 1918.
The above-mentioned towns lie on the Danzig–Grudziądz–Brodnica–
L[idzbark]–Dz[iałdowo]–Ił[awa]–Warsaw railway line.
# Distance¹³⁶⁸ from the East Prussian border: 3 to 13½ km. Kehillah structure:
prior to the adoption of new regulations by the kehillah organisations
in Pomerania, each town was a separate kehillah. Following their adoption,
the towns formed a federation of kehillot encompassing the following towns:
Brodnica, Działdowo, Górzno,¹³⁶⁹ Lidzbark, Lubawa,¹³⁷⁰ Nowe Miasto on the
Drwęca, Jabłonowo,¹³⁷¹ Iława.
The seat of the kehillah is Brodnica¹³⁷², and it has a board composed of
8 people headed by the chairman [. . .] and Rabbi Srebrnik.¹³⁷³ Brod[nica] [. . .]
1363 Moyshe Rejnhold was one of the close associates of Oyneg Shabes, active in the Central Commission for Refugees; his name appears on the list compiled by Hersh Wasser, see Oyneg Shabes, Doc. 2.
1364 Meaning of the sign unknown, here and a few lines below.
1365 Lidzbark Welski (German, Lautenburg) (Brodnica County).
1366 Działdowo (German, Soldau) (Nidzica County).
1367 Iława (German, Eylau) (Nowe Miasto County).
1368 In the original, the word is “Answer,” certainly by mistake. Should be Distance.
1369 Górzno (Brodnica County).
1370 Lubawa (Nowe Miasto County).
1371 Jabłonowo (Brodnica County).
1372 In 1932 an aggregate Jewish Religious Community was set up. Seated in Brodnica, it encompassed the communities from Lidzbark, Nowe Miasto, Lubawa, and Działdowo.
1373 Rabbi Moyshe Srebrnik became rabbi in 1931. He was most likely shot on 29 November 1939 in Brzezinki, where several hundred individuals were executed within the framework of Intelligenzaktion. On the same day the Brodnica synagogue was burned down. See the Jewish Religious Community in Brodnica, pp. 104–105; https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/miejscowosci/b/486-brodnica/99-historia-spolecznosci/137120-historia-spolecznosci, accessed 10 January 2021.
