Adam Czerniakow Diary Extracts

The Aktion to confiscate furs from the Ghettos in Poland  

December 24 1941

I received a message from Warsaw that – according to an edict – we must surrender all the furs – both men’s and women’s. I am to be personally responsible. The deadline has been set for December 28, 1941 

December 25 1941

At 8am in the morning I left for Warsaw. In the Community building, in the large conference room and at 27 Grzybowska Street , a collection of furs. At 1 o’clock Auerswald appeared.

I asked him for an exemption from the requisition for the members of the Order Service and the doctors. He promised to give me his answer tomorrow... I am still sick.

December 26 1941

In the morning I got up aching. At the Community building: the collection. By 12.10, 1,100 fur coats and fur pieces had been gathered. At 1.10 Auerswald and Jesuiter came.

Auerswald signed a letter authorising electricity for the Community Authority building, since it is difficult to work without it. He informed me that the requisition edict applies not only to the Jews of the General Government but also to the foreign Jews.

The only exception is the Jewish citizens of neutral countries such as Sweden and Switzerland.

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