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...The
representative of the Security Police Commander stated at this
discussion that it was not expected that there would be any
further resettlement of Jews for the time being. The continued
presence of 30,000 Jews in the ghetto was likely until the end
of the war. This fact would have to be taken into account from
the point of view of the economy, as the Reich Security Main
Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) was expected to
accede to this attitude of the local Security Police.
This
created a new picture for the labor position and the
maintenance of economic productivity.
1.
The ghetto will remain, with new borders, but roughly the same
size.
2.
Factories situated within the ghetto would continue to
operate, but with Jewish personnel.
3.
Without any connection with the tasks of the city in the
future peace, it is the target of the political and Security
Police to have the 4,000 Jews outside the ghetto disappear
[from the Aryan side] in the near future and work only in the
ghetto....
The
local Security Police intends to allow the ghetto to remain
for the time being and in a certain size: the Reich Security
Main Office in Berlin is to take a final decision in the
matter in the course of the month.
Yad
Vashem Archives, M11/26.
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From documents dated February and March 1943, found in the
Underground archives of the Bialystok ghetto. |
