39. Gypsies

Angielski
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Between November 5 and 9, 1941, 5007 Gypsies from the border of Austria and Hungary – Burgenland were deported to a camp within the ghetto. The camp existed until January 16, 1942, when its inhabitants were deported to the extermination camp at Chełmno on the Ner. 
Typhus epidemic broke out in the Gypsy camp already in the second half of November 1941. By the order of the German authorities, Jewish doctors from the ghetto were trying to fight the epidemics – many of them died. Also SS-Oberscharfuerer Eugen Jansen fell victim to typhus. 

“Exactly after 15 days of his stay in the camp for Gypsies, Jansen fell ill with typhus. Exactly how he got lice on his body, I do not know. It is possible that it was via the fur of his beautiful shepherd dog, or maybe it was a different route. Anyway, the dog was shot at once, which did not change the fact that the patient's condition after 10 days was so bad that there was nothing left to do but to turn to the great of this world. German doctors were not able to help. They summoned the Jewish ones from the ghetto. Among them were two of my superiors. The head of the Kripo ordered rabbis to come to him (I think there were four of them), and instructed them to pray fervently to God for the recovery Jansen, because if he were to die, a great misfortune would fall upon the ghetto. The rabbis were faced with a choice: either to pray to God for a quick recovery of Jansen, or, which they probably preferred, to reduce the number of the enemies of Israel in this world or reduce the deficit in the balance of injustice and pray for him to die soon. No one knows what decision the rabbis made as to what they should pray for. No one knows whether Yahweh heard them. The fact is that Jansen died two days later, and the ghetto survived him by two years and six months.” 
Arnold Mostowicz 
 
"We do not know what is going on behind the barbed wire. But at night you can hear from nearby homes the shrill cries and shouts coming from the camp. Desperate, harrowing, chilling. The tragedy behind the curtain. Torturing people behind closed doors."
Irena Libman 
 
"Two days after the liquidation of the camp I was assigned to work there. I saw it: they lived poorly, there were only kitchen pots, no furniture ... There were various Gypsies there. I saw postcards and photos in Hungarian, Romanian and German. "
Abraham Rozenberg, 

"One night trucks arrived in front of the Gypsy camp, and all the healthy and the sick were loaded onto them and deported. The Germans did not even try to keep secret the fate that befell the residents of the camp. Anyway, from whom would they keep it secret? From other >> subhumans << for whom a similar future awaited? The Gypsies were murdered. Houses which formed the camp returned to the ghetto – that is back behind a single barbed wire fence. They were thoroughly disinfected and dozens of Jewish families moved in.” 
Arnold Mostowicz 

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Bałuty Ghetto 1940–1944