One group went via Radzymin¹⁷³⁶ to Warsaw; the other group, to [2] “the
east.” On the way east many people died of hunger, and in Ostrów Mazowiecka
many Pułtusk Jews were shot. At the behest of the LWydział Ziomkostw,L¹⁷³⁷
the Pułtusk delegates carried out a registration of homeless Pułtusk Jews in
Warsaw who applied for social welfare assistance. In total, 886 persons were
registered. At that time, they received various forms of assistance from the
Joint, whereas now, in the unfavourable financial circumstances of Jewish
Social Self-Help, the homeless receive only insignificant support.
12 May 1941
ARG I 972 (Ring. I/891)
Description: duplicate (2 copies.), handwritten (BW*), pencil, Yiddish,
148×210 mm, minor damage and fragments missing, 4 sheets, 4 pages. In the
margins (ink), the letter “l” [?]
Edition based on first copy of duplicate, 2 sheets, 2 pages.
NASIELSK
Date unknown, Warsaw ghetto, [Lebensold?],¹⁷³⁸ “Nasielsk.” Expulsion of
the Jews on 3 December 1939 and deportation to Łuków and Międzyrzec
Podlaski.
[1] Nasielsk¹⁷³⁹
At 7.30 a.m. on 3 December 1939 the town reverberated with the loud sound of
the bell. Thus the janitor of the municipality was announcing that all Jewish
men, women, and children must gather on the market square within 15 minutes.
Nobody knew what it was all about, but one could sense that something
bad was in the air. At the same time, news spread that the Volksdeutsche
1736 Radzymin (Warsaw County).
1737 (Polish) Lansmanshaftn Department (of the Warsaw Judenrat).
1738 Perhaps one of the less known Oyneg Shabes associates, see ARG I 288.
1739 In 1939 approximately 3,500 out of 6,000 inhabitants of Nasielsk were Jewish.
