On Religious Life
1. Praying – Synagogues, batei midrash,1 prayer houses, alone, gathering people for minyanim,2 nedarim.3
2. Sifrei Torah4 – torn and damaged.
3. Rebbes5 – Hassidic practices, tishn,6 kvitlekh,7 shalosh seudot.8 melave-malka.9
4. Rabbis – din Torah,10 chuppahs,11 divorces, shtar mechira12 (Sabbath), shtar mechira13 (Chametz14), questions.
5. Legal Status of Rabbis – Marriage certificates, birth certificates, registrations.
6. Beards – cut, burned, punishments for beards.
7. Clothing – changing of traditional long attire and Jewish headwear for European clothing. silk gabardines, Shtreymlekh,15 and women’s wigs.
8. Celebrations – how are weddings celebrated, circumcisions, bar mitzvahs, pidyon haben.16
9. Torah – chevra Shas,17 mishnayot18 […] reciting tehilim.19
10. Mikvot20 – taharat-hamishpachah,21 […], travelling to neighbouring towns, the Vistula, opening up the mikvot.
11. Ritual slaughter – slaughter of poultry, […] in houses, attics, cellars, outside of the ghetto, […].
12. Ethrogim22 – in 1940, in […].
13. Matzos – in 1940, in […].
14. Cemeteries – Taharah,23 funeral shrouds, burials on the Sabbath and on holidays, burial of women and men together, leaving bodies unburied.
15. Holidays – Rosh-Hashanah, Yom-[Kippur], Sukkoth, Passover, Tisha-b’av, Shavuoth, in year 1940 and 1941.
16. School system – cheders, yeshivas, young men studying in prayer houses, esn teg,24 […].
17. Observing the Sabbath – Religious Jews profaning the Sabbath, reasons, profaning the Sabbath in the open, according to the rules, and in practice.
18. Life for the provincial rabbis in Warsaw – subsidising the rabbis, events concerning the subsidising of rabbis.
19. Ritual soup kitchens
20. Religious sectors – in […], kehilla,25 Leszno 13, “Tsentos”.26
Kidush hashem27