Notable Dates for all Established Departments, Shops, Offices, and other Communal Institutions for the years 1939 (starting on October 14), 1940, and 1941
Month
Date/Year Established
January
1/1941 Central book depository
1/1941 The Main Fund [kase] (earlier, Fund for [illegible])
1/1941 The [illegible] Department
1/1941 The Cards [kartn] Department
1/1941 Transportation Department
1/1941 Tailors’ shop (10 Podzhechna St.)
2/1940 The first Urgent Aid [ambulance/emergency health service]
2/1941 The marketplace, sorting place and cleaning place for downs and feathers
15/1940 Hospital no. 3 on Vesola-Bazarna St.
20/1941 The Bakers [or baked goods] Office [referat]
23/1940 The Housing Department [literally, “the apartments department”]
25/1941 Leather and saddles Shop
29/1941 Forms [talonen] Department for the Sick, the Weak, and Children
29/1941 The first Diet store “R/I”
February
1/1941 The “House of Culture”
8/1940 Publication of the order to establish a ghetto in Balut
8/1941 Pharmacy no. 6, 5 Ribna St.
10/1941 The move of the orphanage with 500 orphans from 102 Marishiner St. to the building on 76/78 Frantsishkaner St., with capacity for around 700 orphans
15/1940 Arrival in ghetto begins
18/1940 The first community store for colonial goods1
22/1940 The second community store for colonial goods
23/1940 The third community store for colonial goods
23/1941 The move of the home fotr the elderly from 7 Mitskievitch Str. to the special, modern, rebuilt house on 74 Dvorska St., with capacity for 250 elders
27/1941 The Paper Department
March
1/1940 Di ordnugnsdinst komando [ghetto police]
1/1940 The home for the disabled [“cripples’ home”]
1/1941 The Metal Department, 17 Krutka St.
1/1941 The carpentry shop, 9 Putska St.
2/1941 The press bureau [referat] at the [illegible] in Balut
3/Purim Birthday of President M. H. Rumkovski
7/1941 Publication of the first issue of the “Geto tsaytung” [“The Ghetto Newspaper”]
7/1941 The hatmakers’ shop
8/1941 Urgent court introduced
10/1940 The Sanitary Control
11/1940 Electric supply for the ghetto taken over
12/1940 Orphanages on 10 Dvorska St., 21 Ribna St., and 85 Frantsishkaner St.
15/1940 The Post Office
26/1941 The shop for art supplies
28/1940 Pharmacy no. 1, 9 Stari rinek Sq.
April
3/1940 Clinic [ambulatorium] no. 1, 40 Lutomierska St.
6/1941 The second Diet Store “R/II”
6/1941 The Main Commission for Trades
7/1941 The community took over the private press
8/1940 Pharmacy no. 2, 37 Limanovski St.
9/1941 Hospital no. 5, 8 Garbarska St.
10/1940 Hospital no. 7 on Marishin St.
15/1940 Firefighters Department
17/1940 Agriculture office [referat]
18/1941 The [unclear] office [referat] over orphans and poor children
19/1940 The Home for the elderly on Mitskievitsh St. (126 elders of both sexes)
29/1940 Hospital no. 1, 34/36 Lagevnitska St.
May
1/1940 The first workshops on 45 Lagevnitska St.
1/1940 Finance Department
1/1940 Sanitation Department
1/1940 Nursery
7/1940 The Secretariat on the Balut square
8/1940 Coal Department
10/1940 The reporting bureau [meld byuro; I think this might be a place where they take down personal information of ghetto inmates]
10/1941 Carpentry for ghetto construction [oysarbetungn]
11/1940 The first four ghetto police units
13/1941 Woodworking workshop
18/1941 The preventorium2 for children, 55 Lagenvitska St.
20/1941 Special vegetable points
21/1941 Brush workshop
27/1940 Distribution points for colonial goods and vegetables
28/1940 Chimneysweepers Department
30/1941 The metal workshop, 12 Smugova St.
30/1941 Bureau [referat] for administrative punishment at the Balut square
June
1/1940 Infirmary no. [illegible], 34/36 Lagenvitska St.
1/1940 Pharmacy no. 4, 34/36 Lagenvitska St.
1/1941 Merging of the orphanages; 85 Frantsishkaner St., 10 Dvorska St. and [illegible] Ribna St. transferred to the building on [illegible] Marishiner St.
1/1941 Electrotechnical workshop
2/1940 The “price control” [illegible] at the ghetto police
4/1940 The opening of the [illegible] chapter on 1 Ribna St.
4/1940 Statistical office
5/1940 Research office
10/1940 Office of Construction
10/1940 Department of Tobacco
11/1940 Personnel Department
11/1940 Pharmacy no. 3, [illegible]
15/1940 The tailors’ workshop, 8 [illegible] St.
15/1941 Department of Gas Kitchens
20/1941 Brushes workshop, 63 [illegible] St.
24/1940 A special distribution point [illegible] on Marishin Str.
26/1940 Currency-issuing bank [emisiye bank] on 71 [illegible] Str., chapter on 56 Limanovski St.
27/1940 Hospital no. 2, 75 [illegible] St.
27/1940 Collecting point for [illegible]
28/1941 Carpets workshop
28/1941 Labor bureau [referat]
July
1/1940 Milk points
1/1940 Department of [illegible] works
1/1940 Special Department
1/1941 The increase of [illegible] (“zashilek”) to 50 prats.3
8/1940 Introduction of “market [illegible]” (ghetto money)
8/1941 The third wash- and disinfection station, 23 Valborski St.
10/1940 Shoemakers’ workshop
10/1940 Civil Service Office
12/1940 Pharmacy no. 5, [illegible]
12/1940 Blanketmakers’ workshop
14/1940 Carpenters’ workshop
16/1941 The marmalade factory
18/1940 The first wash- and disinfection station, 23 Lutomierska St.
18/1941 Hospital no. 4, 7 [illegible] Lane
22/1941 Juvenile court
24/1941 Rehabilitation home “[illegible]”
27/1940 Orphanage on [illegible] St. for Orthodox children
28/1940 Tailors’ workshop, 16 [illegible] St.
28/1940 Carpenters’ workshop, 3 [illegible] St.
29/1941 Guardians’ circle [illegible] of the minors
August
4/1940 Upholsters’ workshop
5/1941 Laundry, 5 Mlinarska St.
5/1941 The buying station for old materials
10/1940 The tannery
11/1940 The second “Urgent Aid” [ambulance/emergency room]
11/1941 The special rehabilitation home for children, Marishin St.
14/1940 The second wash- and disinfection station, 39 Valborska St.
15/1940 Textile finishing factory
15/1940 The painters’ workshop
18/1940 The children’s colony on Marishin St.
18/1940 House shoes workshop
20/1940 The Rabbinate office
20/1940 Tailors’ workshop, 53 Lagevnitska St.
21/1941 The rubber factory, 36 Limanovski St.
23/1940 Metal workshop
26/1940 Sausage factory
September
1/1940 The first milk kitchen for nursing children, 34/36 Lagevnitska St.
1/1941 Koyber [?] workshop
1/1941 Takeover by the community of the private pharmacy at 8 Koshtshelni Sq.
1/1941 The cork factory
1/1941 Dry cleaning facility
8/1940 Central buying station
9/1941 Electrical transport tram introduced
14/1941 Kitchen control/inspection
15/1940 Attack order (executed on 25 September 1941)
17/1940 Tailors’ workshop, 2 Mlinarska St.
18/1940 Tailors’ workshop, 13 Zhabie St.
20/1940 Liquidation of “Opieka spoletshna”4 and the establishment, in its stead, of Department of Support, which has taken over support for all the jobless in the ghetto
22/1940 The court
26/1940 Workshop for felt- and house-shoes
28/1940 Tailors’ workshop, 10 Dvorska St.
28/1940 Gas department
28/1941 Workshop for repair of straw/knitted shoes
October
1/1940 Central bureau for all labor workshops on Balut square
6/1940 Artificial teeth laboratory5
8/1940 Furs workshop
9/1941 Department of philately
10/1940 Knitters’ workshop
14/1939 President Rumkovski nominated for the position of Elder of the Jews
15/1939 President Rumkovski takes over the community apparatus
15/1940 Secretariat for appeals and proclamations, 1 Dvorska St.
15/1940 Unification of Finance and Economy departments
16/1939 Provisions Department
17/1941 Beginning of construction of the network of new tram lines for the transport purposes of factories and provisioning
20/1939 Health Department
21/1941 Clothes Department
24/1941 The Diet Store “R/III”
26/1940 Laundry Department, 85 Frantsishkaner St.6
28/1940 Laundry and Clothing workshop, 14 Dvorska St.
28/1941 Sawdust [holts-vol] factory
31/1939 Schools and Education Department
31/1940 Rubber factory
November
1/1940 Hosiery workshop
1/1941 Taylors’ workshop, 14 Yakoba St.
3/1941 Nail factory
5/1940 The fifth police department
7/1940 Supreme Inspection Chamber (“NIK”)
10/1941 Plant for processing chemical waste
12/1940 Rubber coats factory, 4 Myodova St.
13/1940 Hats workshop
15/1940 Meat central station
16/1941 Corsets workshop
18/1940 Central prison
23/1939 Information Department
23/1940 Laundry (Marishin St.)
24/1940 Milhvarg department8
29/1940 Department of the Economy
29/1940 Labor Service
December
1/1940 Kitchens/cooking Department
1/1940 Shoemakers’ workshop, 75 Bzhezhiner St.
1/1940 Shoemakers’ workshop, Marishin St.
1/1940 Gloves- and socks workshop
1/1941 Car repair workshop
3/1941 “Department for the Newly-Arrived”
4/1941 Clinic no. 4, 40 Bzhezhiner St.
6/1941 Special elderly people’s homes on Vzheshnienska and Gniezhnienska for 1,500 old people of the newly-arrived
14/ Yartsayt of Mrs. Ita Rumkovska z’’l
15/1940 Tailors’ workshop, 49 Lagevnitska St.
15/1941 Gaiters finishers’ workshop
21/1939 Clinic no. 2, 17 Zgerzher St.
28/1941 The new and large milk kitchen for babies and small children, 10 Bzhezhiner St.
29/1940 Tailors’ workshop, 28 Novomayska St.
30/1941 Children’s hospital no. 6 (37 Lagevnitska St.) finished, with around 300 beds
Selected Maxims by the Elder of the Jews
Which He Expressed on Various Occasions
Five Maxims that Prezes Rumkovski Stressed upon Arrival in Ghetto:
-
Work
-
Bread
-
Care of the Sick
-
Care of the Children
-
Peace and Order in Ghetto
“My Primary Concern is the Well-Being [or Welfare] of the Ghetto!”
“[Illegible] should be done with open arms!” (From a Speech in a Diet Store)
“Our Only Way Forward is—Work [or Labor]!”
“Work [or Labor] is Our Passport to Peace!” [“peace” here is more like absence of worry, not the antonym of war]
“[Illegible] Good Labor is Always the Derekh Erets [i.e., an ethical and responsible way to live]!”
“Work Should be Performed with Joy!”
(from several speeches to workers)
“[Illegible] Must Learn a Trade!”
“All of Us are in [Illegible] Together!”
“Nobody in the Ghetto Should Be Hungry!”
“My Entire Being is Dedicated to Ghetto Problems!”
“Work Without Worries, I Will Make Sure That Your Children Are Cared For!”
“With the Expansion of [illegible], Budget Support For [illegible] Will Be Reduced!”
“In Work, One Should Keep In Mind the Common Good!”
“Work Must Be Improved and [illegible]!”
(from several speeches to workers)
“My Only Joy are You, Little Children!”
“I Will Take Care of You Until My Last Breath!”
(from speeches to children)
“I Want to Be the Fiercest [illegible] of the Ghetto!”
“Each One of Us Needs to Secure the Existence Minimum!” [i.e., achieve a level of living that allows decency]
“Each Piece of Trash in the Ghetto Must be Turned into a Valuable!”
(From a speech to the leaders of the Workshops)
“When It Comes to the Common Good, No Individual Is Important!” (in the sense, no one’s individual interest comes before the common good)
“The Newly Arrived7 Jews Are Our Brothers and Sisters!”
“We Will Share With You [illegible]”
“In the Ghetto, Everyone Works for Each One, and Each One for Everyone!”
(From speeches to the newly arrived in the ghetto)
“We Did Not Chase You Away [i.e., expel], and We Did Not Bring You Here; Since You Are Here [illegible] We Will Treat You Like Brothers and Sisters!”
(From a speech to the expelled from the Altreich)
“What Cannot Be Done, Must Be Done!”
(Prezes’s Favorite Saying)”