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From: The SS and Police Fuehrer in the District of Warsaw
Warsaw, 9 May 1943.
Ref. No.: I ab/St/Gr 1607 Journal No. 625/43.
Re: Large-scale Ghetto Operation.
To: The Higher SS and Police Fuehrer East, SS-Obergruppenfuehrer and General of Police Krueger—or deputy.
Cracow
Progress of large-scale operation on 9 May 1943, start 1000 hours.
The operation carried out today had the following result: The raiding parties at work today discovered 42 dug-outs. From these dug-outs we pulled out alive 1,037 Jews and bandits. In battle 319 bandits and Jews were shot, moreover an uncertain number were destroyed when the dug-outs were blown up. The block of buildings which formerly contained the "Transavia" concern was destroyed by fire; in this operation we again caught a number of Jews, although this block had been combed through several times.
Again we captured some pistols and hand grenades.
| Our strength, used in the operation: | ||
| German police | 4/103 | |
| Security Police | 2/12 | |
| Engineers | 3/69 | |
| Waffen SS | 13/547 | |
| Cordoning forces: | ||
| Day | Night | |
| Waffen SS | 1/300 | |
| German Police | 1/87 | 1/36 |
| Trawniki | 160 | |
| Polish Police | 1/160 | 1/160 |
Our losses: None.