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Brothers
and Sisters!
We
appeal to you before the autumn and winter come and with them
winds, cold and snow.
The
urgent task awaits us of supplying the necessary daily needs
of those who were burned out and are without a roof over their
heads,* as well as of orphanages, children's homes, homes for
the aged, hospitals and other institutions. Most important, we
must find warm clothes and shoes for them, to protect them as
far as possible from colds and infectious diseases, which are
a grave danger for all of us.
In
order to ward off these threats, the Judenrat announces a
widely based collection campaign. Jews, remember that we have
no one to rely on except ourselves alone.
Time
is short and the need is terribly great, and because of that
we must spare from ourselves whatever we can and give it to
the campaign.
Please,
therefore, receive our collectors with the warmth they
deserve, and respond immediately and with a Jewish warmth of
heart.
Let
us ease from our own resources, if only by a little, the
suffering in the winter days! Let the danger of epidemics be
prevented!
Ask
the collectors for receipts signed by the Judenrat.
Judenrat
Bialystok,
September 8, 1941
Blumental,
p. 330.
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The reference is to persons whose houses were burned down. |
