The second group, just like the first, suffered Gehenna in the Działdowo
camp and then they were placed in cities and towns in the former Kielce
voivodship. The population [26] of those towns big and small generally gave
the refugees from Płock a warm welcome. Soup kitchens and aid committees
were established. A small group of the resettled who had any kind of support
in the capital went to Warsaw, whereas the rest remained in very harsh
financial and health conditions.
Due to poverty and spreading epidemics, a high percentage of the population
is dying.
With the moment of resettlement, the relatively tightly-knit Jews of
P[łoc]k dispersed and lost contact with one another.
And again, the title of the Wandering Jew, well known to us for so long,
had stuck to the P[łoc]k Jew.
ARG I 965 (Ring. I/886)
Description: duplicate (3 copies in fragments), handwritten (CA*), pencil, Polish,
148×210 mm, substantial damage and missing fragments (copies 1 and 3),
77 sheets, 77 pages.
Edition based on all copies of the duplicate, 26 sheets, 26 pages.
After February 1941, Warsaw ghetto, author unknown, account recorded
by Hersh Wasser of the expulsion of the Jews from an unidentified town
[Płock?] to Działdowo [fragment]. Course of the deportation (27 February
1941), stay in Działdowo, departure to the General Government (Kielce,
Chmielnik, Żarki, Częstochowa).
II.¹⁶⁷⁹ 27 February — in the air — only till 6 (Christians till 7), 4 a.m. — guards
from 13th Battalion. Alle Juden heraus!¹⁶⁸⁰ Everyone went out into the street,
including the sick and the pregnant women (during the first expulsion even
the Jewish hospital with dangerously ill patients — all underwent torture in
1679 Probably the original page number. The document consisted of two pages at least; only one survived.
1680 (German) All Jews outside!
