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When
the war broke out the Joint did not have large sums of money
available, scarcely sufficient for a few months. It was very
difficult to maintain contact with the headquarters [of the
Joint], which moved from place to place, and, as a result, the
transfer of funds from abroad was inadequate for so difficult
a period. Later, when war broke out between America and
Germany, in 1941, there were no more direct transfers of
funds....
As
the social-welfare organization required huge sums of money,
the Management of the Joint, consisting of Messrs. Guzik,
Giterman and Neustadt, set about obtaining very large loans
for the Joint from private persons. These transactions, which
continued right through the period of the war, were forbidden
from the beginning. This illegal transfer could have cost the
heads of the Management of the Joint, particularly as the
matter became an open secret about which all Warsaw talked.
Guzik was imprisoned for nine months in connection with
illegal transfer....
Ringelblum,
II, pp. 133-134.
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The various parts of Ringelblums writings, which carry no
date, were written between the end of 1942 and the spring of
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