Small Riga Ghetto

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the police station in Mazā Kalna Street. There, a stack of boards was moved
aside and once again people searched for something. Finally the group went
through a courtyard on Viļānu Street toward Lauvas Street. Here in a ruined
building they found an excellently camouflaged hiding place where mattresses,
distilled water, candles, petroleum, biscuits, canned food and other things had
been stored. Besides, various valuables were also found bricked up into the
walls.
Later the German Jewish police chief Perl discovered still more valuable objects
in the same place and kept them for himself.
Israelowitsch was taken back to the prison. For a long time we heard nothing
more about him. The whole weapons incident seemed to have petered out.
The former policeman Goldberg (from the women's ghetto) was also brought
out of prison and people once again dug in places that he pointed out. Apparently
this enterprise too was connected with the weapons incident.
At this time the Kommandant paid a visit to Lielā Kalna Street. It turned out
that as soon as he came into view four young people fled from one of the
houses and disappeared. The Kommandant, who had seen this, ordered the police
to bring these four persons to him at any cost and set a certain deadline.
He guaranteed the fugitives their freedom. The young men presented themselves
and were in fact released. But a short time later they were separately
arrested and taken away. They were never seen again in the ghetto. Among
them was a fourteen-year-old boy named Dolgitzer. After a few months a series
of arrests of the resistance movement's members began.
The work crews returning to the ghetto were waited for at the gate and individuals
were selected out of them.
It turned out that a list had existed on which only family names had been
noted. For this reason, all of the members of a given family were always taken
out of the work crews.
On one of these occasions a certain Boris Freidberg was also arrested, but he
managed to flee. Thereupon the ghetto was placed under a state of emergency.
Under these circumstances the men's access to the Latvian women's ghetto and
to the German ghetto was barred. These measures were also connected with
the weapons incident.
The next morning a printed announcement of the Kommandant was posted
on the streets. It bore a signature and read as follows:
"It is necessary to interrogate the Jew Boris Freidberg from the Latvian
ghetto concerning a certain matter. But he is in hiding. If he voluntarily
presents himself by 20 hours tomorrow evening, nothing will happen to