2.2 -- Josek and Sula: New Year, 1940

The restaurant "Szymek" located on Leszno St. has been taken over by the Germans. They put a notice on the door forbidding entry.  The notice read: "Entrance forbidden to Poles and Jews".  Why put it like that? On the Aryan side of Nowy Swiat, for instance, at least the notice says: "Nur Fur Deutsche" - making it clear that it is exclusively for Germans. But this is such a personal intrusion. I wonder whether other people, of other nationalities, will be allowed to enter?


A very severe frost has gripped Warsaw.  Fortunately it has been possible to fit all windows with glass at home, so less wind blows in.  But on Franciszkanska St. at Nos. 6 and 15, people froze to death in their apartments for lack of fuel.  How cruel that is.