| Translator's Notes: [6] The original inhabitants of the town, about 3000, plus others brought in my the Germans, including Jewish residents of Kamenets Litewskie as mentioned above. Thus, living conditions in the Ghetto were very likely terribly crowded. Andrea Simon's book Bashert documents that the Germans told the residents of neighboring Volchin that they would be removed to the “more comfortable” Ghetto at Wysokie Litewskie, and this pretext was accepted, implying that the practice was commonplace. The Volchin residents were murdered on the outskirts of that town. [7] Apparently, a German special unit with specific occupation/police duties. [8] This may refer to the period immediately following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. There must have been some time before the German administration arrived, and –in the meantime—there was an absence of authority of about 5 months. |