Eerie Jewish ghetto: theaters, restaurants, cafes

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Why don't Jews explore life in the ghettos of Chernivtsi, Proskurov, Kremenchug, Vinnitsa, Zhmerinka, Kamenets-Podolsky, Minsk and dozens of other cities? Is it because the Jewish Judenrates and the Rabbinate collaborated with the Nazis, and the Jews were terrorized not by the Germans, but by their own Jewish police?

In total, about 1000 ghettos were created in Europe, in which at least a million Jews lived. More than 300 ghettos are mentioned in the "Guide to Camps, Prisons and Ghettos in the Occupied Territory of Ukraine (1941-1944)" prepared by the State Committee of Archives of Ukraine in 2000, which means that there were 300 Judenrats in Ukraine, each of which included 10 -15 influential Jews and rabbis, and dozens, if not hundreds of Jewish policemen (there were 750 Jewish policemen in the Lvov ghetto).

Let me remind you that ghettos are residential zones that existed on the principles of Jewish self-government in territories controlled by the Germans, where Jews were forcibly moved in order to isolate them from the non-Jewish population.

The self-governing body of the ghetto was the Judenrat ("Jewish Council"), which included the most authoritative people in the city or town. For example, in Zlochev (Lviv region) 12 people with a doctorate degree became members of the Judenrat. The Judenrat provided economic life in the ghetto, and the Jewish police kept order there.

Most often, in the context of the Holocaust, mention is made of the Warsaw ghetto formed in 1940, the maximum population of which reached about 0.5 million people. Jews worked under German orders both inside and outside the ghetto.

The upper stratum in the ghetto consisted of prosperous merchants, smugglers, owners and co-owners of enterprises, senior officials of the Judenrat, and Gestapo agents. They arranged magnificent weddings, dressed their women in furs and gave them diamonds, restaurants and nightclubs with exquisite food and music worked for them, thousands of liters of vodka were imported for them.

“The rich came, hung with gold and diamonds; in the same place, at tables filled with food, under the pop of champagne corks, "ladies" with brightly painted lips offered their services to military speculators, - this is how Vladislav Shpilman describes a cafe in the center of the ghetto, whose book "The Pianist" formed the basis of the film of the same name by Roman Polansky. - In rickshaw carriages, graceful gentlemen and ladies sat, stretched out, in expensive woolen suits in winter, in French silks and expensive hats in summer.

There were 6 theaters, restaurants, cafes in the ghetto, but Jews enjoyed themselves not only in public institutions, but also in private brothels and card clubs that arose in almost every home …

Bribery and extortion in the Warsaw ghetto reached astronomical proportions. The members of the Judenrat and the Jewish police made enormous profits from this.

For example, in the ghetto, the Germans were allowed to have only 70 bakeries, while there were 800 more underground bakeries in parallel. They used raw materials smuggled into the ghetto. The owners of such underground bakeries were taxed with large bribes by their own police, Judenrat and gangsters.

Many smugglers who came across became agents of the Gestapo - they reported about hidden gold, about the activities of gangs. Such were the smugglers Kohn and Geller, who seized the entire transport business inside the ghetto and, in addition, smuggled on a large scale. In the summer of 1942, they were both killed by competitors.

The Warsaw ghetto was a nationwide center for illegal currency transactions - the black ghetto exchange determined the dollar exchange rate throughout the country.

Personally, I was most struck by another fact from the life of the black exchange of the ghetto: one Jewish surviving miracle remembered that they traded land in Palestine there!

It is extremely interesting why the Jews call the "uprising" carried out by the Germans in April 1943 to clean up the Warsaw ghetto drowning in unsanitary conditions, debauchery and corruption? Why are they afraid to tell the truth about who and against whom "rebelled" there?

After all, the raid of the Germans was provoked by Jewish thieves, retailers and smugglers, armed to the teeth, thereby endangering the civilian population - the elderly, women, children.

Jewish militants "rebelled" not at all against the Germans, as the legend says, but killed their Jewish police and almost the entire Judenrat inside the ghetto, they killed theater actors, journalists - 59 out of 60 (!) Employees of the newspaper Zhagev were killed at the hands of Jewish mafiosi (Torch). They brutally took the life of one of the leaders of the ghetto, sculptor and prominent Zionist 80-year-old Alfred Nossig.

The bandits terrorized the population of the Warsaw ghetto, imposing a Reketyr tax on almost everyone. Those who refused to pay, they kidnapped children or took them to their clandestine prisons on the street. Mila, 2 and on the territory of the Tebens enterprise - and there they were brutally tortured.

Bands of robbers indiscriminately took everything from both the poor and the rich: they took off watches, jewelry, took money, not yet worn-out clothes and even groceries hidden for a rainy day. These Jewish gangs terrified the ghetto. Often, in the silence of the night, a shootout began between the gangs themselves - the Warsaw ghetto turned into a jungle: one attacked the other, at night the shouts of Jews were heard, who were attacked by robbers.

The bandits robbed the cash desk of the Judenrat three times in broad daylight, taking money that went to feed homeless children, treat typhus patients and other social needs. They imposed an indemnity on the Judenrat of a quarter of a million zlotys, and the supply department of the Judenrat with an indemnity of 700 thousand zlotys.

The Judenrat paid the indemnity on time, but the supply department refused. Then the Jewish gangsters kidnapped the son of the cashier of the department and held him for several days, after which they received the required amount.

But only after the bandits began to attack the German patrols, the Germans, who had endured all these outrages for a long time, intervened and began a "raid against thieves and bootleggers." Jewish policemen took an active part in the action - they, as people who know the area well, helped the German assault groups very much in combing the neighborhoods.

Not Germans, but Jewish gangsters destroyed the ghetto, blowing up houses and setting them on fire with Molotov cocktails. Hundreds of innocent people died in the fire of a grand fire. The Germans tried to put out the fire, but to no avail - the bandits set fire to new buildings.

Here is how one of the militants, Aaron Carmi, tells about an unsuccessful attempt to mine a building: “And they still did not lay mines there … Three of our guys went down to the basement to blow it up.

So what? They're sticking out there with their tongue stuck to their butt. And I'm spinning here … and it was a tragedy!"

One of the militants, Kazik Rateizer, confessed many years later: “What right did we, a small group of young people from ZOB (one of the gangs), have to decide the fate of many people? What right did we have to start a riot? This decision led to the destruction of the ghetto and the death of many people who otherwise might have survived."

How did the "uprising" end? The ghetto was completely destroyed, all the inhabitants of the ghetto were sent to labor camps - almost all of them survived. The Germans did not even shoot the militants captured with weapons.

Photos of rebel girls in caps are popular on the Internet. On the far right is Malka Zdroevich, she was captured with a weapon, but she was not shot, but sent to work in Majdanek, of course she “miraculously survived the Holocaust”.

An even more popular photo depicts a group of Jews being taken out of the basement. In the foreground is a boy in short pants with raised arms, behind him is a German soldier in a helmet with a rifle in his hands.

This boy, Zwi Nu; baum, is an ENT doctor who lives near New York, and the German soldier Josef Blosche was put on trial in East Germany after the war and executed on charges of participating in an action for suppression of the "uprising" in the Warsaw ghetto.

The commander of the “uprising”, Mordechai Anilevich, together with his headquarters, committed a collective suicide in the basement at 18 Myala Street, where the headquarters of one of the gangs was located.

A few words to the portrait of the leader of the uprising: gang members recall that when Anilevich was eating, he covered the bowl with his hands. They asked: "Muzzle, why are you covering the bowl with your hands?" He replied: "I am so accustomed that the brothers do not take it away." He was the son of a fishmonger from the Warsaw suburb, and when the fish was not taken for a long time, his mother forced him to paint his gills with paint so that it seemed fresh.

In early May, the leaders of another gang discovered a passage through the sewers and left the ghetto (they might have left earlier, but did not know about this pipe) - they left, leaving scattered groups of their militants who were in other places.

According to the recollections of one of the members of the leadership of this gang, they refused to take with them several peaceful Jews who asked for help … The last gang of criminals was destroyed by the Germans on June 5 on Muranovskaya Square.

Thieves, retailers and smugglers who fled outside the ghetto have gathered in new gangs, robbing Polish peasants. General Bur-Komorowski, commander of the Polish underground Home Army on September 15, 1943, issued an order directly ordering the destruction of marauding Jewish criminal groups, accusing them of banditry.

Perhaps someone will continue to look for the evil intent and guilt of the Germans in the death of the Warsaw ghetto, but I will propose to these researchers to think about why the Germans did not touch hundreds of other ghettos, where there was no corruption, smuggling, reket, unsanitary conditions, the parcels of the Red Cross, did businesses work?

As an example, we can cite the Theresienstadt ghetto, comparable to Warsaw in terms of the number of people, where German and Czech Jews maintained exemplary order. The Theresienstadt Jewish Council of Elders has repeatedly informed the Red Cross inspectors that they enjoy surprisingly favorable conditions, given that Germany was on the way to defeat in the war, and world Jewry was the first to call for its destruction.

The head of the Judenrat in the Bialystok ghetto (a city in northeastern Poland) Ephraim Barash managed to convert residential buildings into workshops, procure tools and machine tools, and set up more than 20 factories that worked for the needs of the German army.

Commissions came, including from Berlin, and inspected these factories. Barash organized an exhibition on the Aryan side to show how the ghetto contributes to the war effort in Germany. In November 1942, the Germans liquidated some useless surrounding ghettos, while the Bialystok ghetto was not touched.

It should be noted that in many ghettos in Eastern Europe, due to total unsanitary conditions, Jewish quarters turned into a zone of increased epidemiological danger - epidemics of typhus and dysentery broke out there.

The most common cause of death among the Jewish population in the ghetto was not the "Holocaust" at all, but infectious diseases. And to be quite frank, the main reason for these diseases was the rejection of European hygiene procedures due to Judaism.

The history of the Warsaw ghetto given here looks rather unusual, but everything that was written here is 100% taken from Jewish sources, and the whole article is based on them about 80%.

If you learn how to cleanse Holocaust stories from propaganda husks, get rid of intrusive subjective assessments and extract "naked information" - you will most often find the exact opposite meaning of what happened.