The Germans in Warsaw - September-October 1939 -Bulletin No. 2

This bulletin was intended to publish the work of the Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, describing the German siege and occupation of Warsaw. The bulletin consists of fragments of various testimonies of Jews from Warsaw collected by the committee, together with some committee remarks in between quotations. It states that the German bombardment targeted Jewish quarters of Warsaw specifically, and describes the mass of casualties from bombs and fires in the city. The bulletin describes the dispersal of the self-governing Jewish community and the establishment of a council by the Germans which was liable to them with their lives. They mentioned likewise forced labor and the extreme conditions in which the conscript Jews worked, as well as the many tortures for personal amusement, confiscations of property and arbitrary torments the Germans inflicted on Jews in Warsaw and the surrounding area. Bulletin No. 2 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence on the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation.