Report on the Liquidation of the Piotrków Ghetto

Report on the current situation in Piotrków Trybunalski, dated November 2nd, 1942. The author uses a pseudonym, “Hania.” Among several topics, the report includes the information that the ghetto in Piotrków has been liquidated, and most Jews have been sent out. Germans are tapping walls, floors, and ceilings in search of hidden items to be seized, and are searching for Jews hidden within the limits of the ghetto. They are looking for Jews hidden by Poles, who fear to keep a Jew for more than one day or night. There remained approximately 2,400 Jews in the Piotrków ghetto, in the area of the “small ghetto.” They have found hundreds of Jews hiding in various places, including cellars beneath a 15th-century historic building. Jews who are found are not immediately killed, but are sent to Tomaszów and transported further from there with others. Furniture and other Jewish property are being sorted and evaluated. There is also information about Jews being deported in the direction of Małkinia and Baranowicze.