Spring 1942
This chapter highlights the journal entry of Rachela Auerbach on May 22, 1942 about a rumor that 'something' would be happening as the entire Jewish police force was placed on high alert. It discusses the information about the mass murder of the Jewish population in the eastern parts of occupied Poland that began to reach the ghetto through refugees and letters. It mentions that the underground Jewish press had alarmed its readers with news about the massacre of Vilnius Jews in Ponary. The chapter details how the German administration introduced additional forceful measures aimed at the separation of a ghetto from the rest of Warsaw, and Jews who were residing illegally on the Aryan side were more aggressively hunted down. It recounts the beginning of German surveillance of the attitude of the Jewish population and search of possible resistance leaders.