Inferno Holocaust.pdf

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Translated from Polish by Elżbieta Gołębiowska

Second edition

Bibliographical Note:

This is the second, revised and expanded edition of Inferno of Choices:

Poles and the Holocaus t, first published by Oficyna Wydawnicza RYTM,

in 2011. Two new chapters have been provided for this edition.

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Contents

Acknowledgements ...........................................................

Introduction by Maciej Kozłowski ...................................

I. Documents ....................................................................

Announcement by the executive authority of the Jewish Re-

ligious Community to the Jewish population of the town of

Piotrków on the establishment of a ghetto. Piotrków, Octo-

ber 1939 .....................................................................................

A circular from senior SS and police commander for Warth-

egau, Wilhelm Koppe on the plan for the resettlement of

Jews and Poles to the General Government [excerpts].

Poznań, November 1939 .........................................................

A Report from Waldemar Schön, Head of the Resettlement

Department of the Office of the Governor of the Warsaw

District on the Purposes of the Establishment of a Ghetto in

Warsaw [excerpts]. Warsaw, January 1941............................

Order No. 1 of Reinhard Heydrich to the Einsatzgruppen

commanders on “self-cleansing” operations and the role to

be played in the same by German military and police forces

[excerpts]. Warsaw, June 1941 ................................................

Order No. 2 of Reinhard Heydrich to the Einsatzgruppen

commanders on involving Poles in anti-Jewish operations

in newly occupied territories in eastern Poland [excerpts].

Warsaw, July 1941.....................................................................

Ban on joining auxiliary force assigned to guard barracks in

labour camps for Jews, published in the underground Biu-

letyn Informacyjny [Information Bulletin] of the Union of

Armed Struggle. Warsaw, March 1941 ..................................