14 Dec.
45
Jewish residential area of Warsaw. " —
Fifteen names are thereafter listed.
"Furthermore, the Polish Police Sergeant Julian Zielenski, born
13 November 1891, 8th Commissariat, fell on 19 April 1943 while
fulfilling his duty. They gave their utmost, their life. We shall
never forget them.
"The following were wounded...."
Then
follow the names of 60 Waffen-SS personnel, 11 watchmen from training
camps (probably Lithuanians), 12 Security Police officers in SS units, 5
men of the Polish Police, and 2 soldiers of the Wehrmacht Engineers.
Permit me to read some brief excerpts of the daily teletype reports.
Page 13 of the translation, from the teletype message of 22 April 1943,
I read:
"Our setting the block on fire
achieved the result in the course of the night that those Jews whom we
had not been able to find despite all our search operations left their
hideouts under the roofs, in the cellars, and elsewhere and appeared
on the outside of the building, trying to escape the flames anyhow.
Masses of them — entire families — were already aflame and
jumped from the windows or endeavored to let themselves down by means
of sheets tied together or the like. Steps had been taken so that
these Jews as well as the remaining ones were liquidated at once."
And from Page 28 of the translation, the last part of the first
paragraph, I read:
"When the blocks of buildings
mentioned above were destroyed, 120 Jews were caught and numerous Jews
were destroyed when they jumped from the attics to the inner
courtyards, trying to escape the flames. Many more Jews perished in
the flames or were destroyed when the dugouts and sewer entrances were
blown up."
And on Page 30,
second half of the second paragraph, I read:
"Not until the blocks of buildings
were well aflame and were about to collapse did a considerable number
of Jews emerge, forced to do so by the flames and the smoke. Time and
again the Jews tried to escape even through burning buildings.
Innumerable Jews whom we saw on the roofs during the conflagration
perished in the flames. Others emerged from the upper stories in the
last possible moment and were only able to escape death from the
flames by jumping down. Today we caught a total of 2,283 Jews of whom
204 were