WĄBRZEŹNO COUNTY
GOLUB-DOBRZYŃ
(a) After 11 May 1941, Warsaw ghetto, author unknown, ”דאָברזין בייַ
דרווענץ — גאָלוב פאָמ.“ [Dobrzyń on the Drwęcą — Golub Pom(orski)].
Two-part account of the persecutions of the Jewish population of Dobrzyń
and Golub in September and November 1939. (b) Date unknown, place
unknown, lists of names of people deported by the Germans from Dobrzyń
and Golub on 14 September and 9 November 1939.
(a)
[1] Dobrzyń [on the] Drw[ęca] — Golub Pom[orski]¹⁵⁷³
The town was occupied on 6 September 1939 and straight away they¹⁵⁷⁴ began
robbing grocery stores and textile shops. It went on for two whole days, then
all shops and houses without exception were beschlagnahmt.¹⁵⁷⁵ On Rosh
Hashanah, they ordered all men aged 15–60 to report to the market square,
on pain of death. Despite the threat, they went from house to house, dragging
them all out from the bet hamidrash and all the other shtibels¹⁵⁷⁶ in their talesim
and silk kaftans, loaded them onto trucks, and took them to Bydgoszcz, 230 in
all, among them men who were sick, paralyzed, or chronically sick.¹⁵⁷⁷ They put
them in stables, on horse manure, and beat them. From there they were taken
1573 Before WWII, they were separate towns; they were merged into one urban unit by the German authorities at the end of 1939, and so they remain until today.
1574 i.e Germans, referred to as ‘they’ throughout the document.
1575 (German) requisitioned.
1576 There were shtibels of Gerer Hasidim (“Little Ger,” Piłsudskiego Street 19), Otwock Hasidim (“Otwock”), Aleksandrów Łódzki Hasidim (“Aleksander”) and Warka Hasidim (“Great Shtibel”).
1577 This group was placed in the barracks of the 15th regiment of light artillery, on Gdańska Street. They were put in a stable, or barrack No. VIII. In the early days of October 1939, groups of 30 people were subsequently taken to the nearby forests and murdered.
