Small Riga Ghetto

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apartment. He did not live much longer in freedom himself, for he was killed
very soon. His wife (née Minsker) lost her life in the ghetto.
Once again a savage hunt began in the city for the Jewish women who had
Aryan husbands. If any of them had become widows by that time, they were
brought forcibly into the ghetto at once. From the prisons we heard that there
too Jews had been killed again. People said that the woman Communist Steklow
had been among them.
Three Jews – one of them was named Eliasch – were shot because of sabotage
in Milgrāvis (Mühlgraben), near the filling station. They had poured sand
into the gasoline tanks. In the ghetto, the two Zfas sisters were shot, and for
disseminating "false" rumors a certain Mr. Skutel (a former employee of the
Abe Siew Company) was hanged.
In the women's camp there was now a Jewish women's police force in addition
to the policeman Goldberg, who was succeeded by Weitz. Mrs. Margolin
(from Kovno), Mrs. Nathan, Mrs. Purmel and later on Mrs. Krieger served in
this women's police force. Their main task was to staff the work crews and
supervise the sanitation facilities.
After the ghetto had been expanded twice, the Billeting Department appointed
a custodian for each house. These posts were received by many wellknown
Riga figures such as Osiasohn, Akselrod (from Latfin), Manuchowitsch
(from Liepāja), Botwinkin, Brandmann, Scheps (who had worked at the Feldhuhn
Company), Schulmann, Belinki, Günsburg, Selionker, Jakobsohn, Segal,
Lewinsohn and Dordik.
XIII.
Now I would like to report on the medical assistance in our ghetto, beginning
with its establishment and ending with its liquidation (1941–1943). The first
outpatient clinic was set up in the building of our ghetto administration on Līksnas
Street. Initially only a small room on the second floor was available for it.
For a long time the senior consultant was Dr. Wolpe; Dr. Blumenfeldt also
played an important role.
When the ghetto was enlarged, the outpatient clinic received a specially
equipped building of its own.
Dr. Magalif brought in most of the medicines; he had collected them in the
Large Ghetto. Later the essentials were scavenged at the work stations, and
thus the ghetto was really well supplied with medicines of all kinds. In this regard,
another great source of support was the SSP (Sanitation Collection Point)
commando. Its leader and the doctors who worked there, Dr. Jaworkowsky