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The great
deportation from Warsaw began on Wednesday, July 22, 1942. Posters
in the ghetto streets spelled out the deportation procedure and
listed the persons who were to report: 70,000 of the 380,000 Jews in
the ghetto. The first deportees were the most unfortunate and
defenseless inhabitants-refugees, the elderly, and the homeless. The
ghetto was panic-stricken; no one could say where the deportees were
being taken. The chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat, Adam Czerniakow,
committed suicide the next day, rather than cooperate in the
deportation.
In the
first stage of the deportation, which lasted until the end of July,
it was the duty of the Jewish police to meet the transport quota.
When the quota was not filled, Germans and their assistants raided
the ghetto alleys and abducted men. |
