A CARD FROM THE CALENDAR - PAUL REGUŁA
Głogów Małopolski, a town of only two thousand people, was half-Jewish. The Jews had their own community, synagogue, cemetery, shops, and inns. They occupied most of the town square. Different ethnic groups lived in harmony, having known each other for generations. At the turn of 1941 and 1942, the Germans established the Glogow ghetto by putting almost a thousand people in a quarter of the town square. They walled them in and shut the gates. The lives of these Jews turned nightmarish, for they had no fuel and no food. They wasted away and slowly died. In the autumn of 1942, Paul Reguła, who had a rather substantial estate, asked the town’s mayor, Mr Wagner, to help him find people for potato-lifting. Wagner hated to see resources go to waste, so he consented to Reguła’s request and let the ghetto Jews work on his estate. Every day, they were allowed to take home as many potatoes as they could carry. Thanks to this, many of them survived the winter instead of starving to death.
