The Black Book of Polish Jewry (1943).pdf

THE BLACK BOOK

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SPONSORED

Mas. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

PROFESSOR SALO W . BARON

Columbi-a University

HoN. SoL. BLooM,

Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee

of the House of Representatives

HON. EMANUEL CELLERJ

U. S. Congressman

PROFESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN

HoN. FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA

Mayof' of the City of New York

HoN. HAROLD L. ICKES,

Secf'etary of the IntHi-or

FREDA KJRCHWEYJ

Editor, The Nation

HoN. A. ]. SABATII,

Chaif'1!14n, Committee on Rules of the

House of Representtllwes

DR. IGNACY ScHWARZBART.

Membef' of the Polish National Council

HoN. ]os. T. SHARKEY 1 •

Vice-Chairman and Majority LeadH,

New York City Council

SYLWIN STRAKACZ,

Polish Ministef' Plenipotentiary

PROFESSOR CHAIM TCHERNOWITZ

Jewish Institute of Religion

HENRI TORRES

HoN. ROBERT H. WAGNER,

U. S. SenaiOf'

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THE BLACK BOOK

OF POLISH JEWRY

An Account of the Martyrdom of Polish ]ewry

Under the Nazi Occupation

Editor: JACOB ¥BNSZLAK

Co-Editors:

JACOB KENNER, DR. ISAAC LEWIN

DR. MosES PoLAKIEWicz

PubliJhed by

THE AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR POUSH JEWS

in cooperation wth

THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES AND

IMMIGRANTS FROM POLAND

...

PUBLICATION COMMITTEE

Gershom Badet-, Sam Berke, Morris BlNmenslock,

Jacob Brown, Chttim Finkelstein, Dr. Isaac Kornfeld,

Jacob Kenner, Mendel Moses, Dr. Simon Segal, Dr.

Arieh Tartakower, Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, Joseph

T hon, Benjamin J.

Weinberg, Benjamin Winter,

Dr. Leon W Nlman.

The publishfWs acknowledge I he moral support extended

to the publication of this book by the late Abraham Gold-

bfWg, fonner chainnan of the Adminislralwe Council of the

American PedfWation for Polish Jews.

Special chapters in this book have been contributed by

the following: Aaron Alperin, J acob .Apenszlak, Gershom

Bader, Samuel Berenholc, Wolf Blatberg, Chaim Finkelsrein,

Dawid Jedwabnik, Jacob Kenner, George Kowarski, Leo-

pold Lazarowitz, Isaac Lewin, Mendel Moses, Moses Pola-

kiewicz, Henryk Szoszkies, Leib Szpizman, Arieh Tana-

kower, Joseph Thon, Abraham Weiss, Leon Wulman.

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AMBRICAN FEDERATION FOR POLISH JBWS, INC.

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CONTENTS

VIII

EDITOR' S FOREWORD

NOTE ON 11iB SoURCES .

XIII

INTRODUCTION .

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PART ONE

Chapter 1 BLJTZPOGROM .

Special Device Against Jews-First Steps: Wieruszow. Czestcr

chowa, BieJsk~ The Process of "Dejudaization"-Typical Cases

of Blitzpogrom: Aleksa.ndrow, Piotrkow, Zgierz, Wloclawek,

Mielec-Atrocities in Lukow.

Chapter 2

THE MAR1YRDOM OF WARSAW JEWRY

1. BEFORE 1HE CREATION OF 1HE GHE'ITO

Opening Phase of Persecution in Poland's Capital-Raids on Jew-

ish Intellectual Oasses-Street Attacks and House Raids-The

Nazi Fury Against the Jewish Religion-Brothels for the Con-

querors-The Humiliation of Jewish Women-The Organization

of Mass Pogroms-The Appointment of the Warsaw Judenrat-

Tbe First Attempt to Establish the Warsaw Ghett~Duties of

the Judenrat Defined; Forced Labor-Discrimination in Food

Distribution-Hunger and Disease.

2. THE GHETI'o Is EsTABLISHED

Nazi Explanation of Ghetto Decrees-The Ghetto as Seen

Through German Eyes-Congestion and Lack of Sanitation-

Starvation Food Rations-Jewish Self-Help-Ghetto &enes--

The Increase in Mortality-The Penalty for Attempting to Escape

-Intensification of Suffering-The Problem of Deportees.

Chapter 3

LODZ

The Roundup of Jewish Leaders-Looting, Beating and Murder-

Pogrom-Vandalism-House Searches and Humiliations-Anti-

Jewish Decrees-Deportations-The Establishing of the Lodz

Ghetto.

Chapter4 KRAKOW AND KRAKow PROVINCE . . .

looting and Massacre-Deportation-Segregation as Seen by

Nazi Journalist-The Krakow Ghetto--Ghettos in Western

Galicia.

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