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special permit to prevent deportation from the ghetto , signed by
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Biebow, the master of life and death in the ghetto and led me to
a former Sickness Fund hospital at 36 Lagiewnicka Street. I re-
member that we were walking through completely deserted streets,
being pushed on by gusty winds raising clouds of dust and rubbish.
It was really terrifying. I was under the impression that all the peo-
ple had died. At Lagiewnicka St., on the premises of an already
disbanded hospital, those who had documents preventing depor-
tation were grouped. No more victims were taken from there. I
have no idea whether only children or also adults were gathered
there. I remember a huge crowd and the fact that I was sleeping
on a mattress (or a straw pallet?), because there were no beds there.
I do not recall how long I stayed at Lagiewnicka Street, or how I
got home.

I know from my Parents' stories that it was a salvation for me,
because soon after I left the house another search took place. All
the residents of Urzednicza and Drukarska streets, and probably
of others nearby, were herded out in front of their houses, and a
uniformed SS man picked up for transport all the children who
hidden survived the previous search and those adults whom he
deemed unable to work.

Crumbs of Memory

I have already written about the acute feeling of hunger. An-
other such overwhelming experience was biting cold in the autumn

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The photocopy of the document found in 2012 in the State Archives by dr. E. Wiatr
of the Center for Jewish Research is in the Photos and Documents section.
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Hans Biebow - head of the German civil administration of the ghetto (German:
Gettoverwaltung) found guilty of genocide after the end of the war, sentenced to death
and hanged in Lodz in 1947.

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