 To instill fear, the Jewish city councilor Jojna (Yona) Zylberberg was marched with a stone over his head and beaten by the SS soldiers.His wife died in an accident at home only months earlier by falling out of a window when she tried to hang sheers, leaving her two children behind.Around December 1939 January 1940 the Judenrat was established to serve as an intermediary organization between the German command and the local Jewish community.