FORCED LABOR IN POLAND IS TOLD IN WRIT
Forced Labor In Poland Is Told in Writ Document Outlines How ejws Are Kept In Servitude By NOFRONTIER NEWS SERVICE WARSAW, Poland—Although the outside world has heard stories about the forced...
...The registration of persons subject to forced labor will extend in the first place to all Jews ranging from 12 to 60 years of age inclusive...
...The mayor and the Jewish community will be responsible for the completeness and accuracy of this registration...
...Any infringement of these regulations will be punished by sentences of imprisonment which can attain to 10 years, and furthermore they may entail the confiscation of all the property belonging to the Jews...
...A notice published by the mayor will order the Jews to present themselves at the municipal offices in order to be registered for work...
...Coats, sweaters, suits, shirts, dresses and blouses account for $25 a year out of a total clothing expenditure of $49 for an average city man and for $23 a year out of an average total expenditure of $55 for women...
...and weeks afterwards copies were received by certain individuals in outside countries of the continent...
...The transport of these tools and machines will be provided for b.v the Jewish community, which shall be warned in due time to this effect...
...Special tribunals will judge these cases...
...The length of the period of forced labor is fixed by the regulations to two years...
...The decree was published as far back as Jan...
...It is also forbidden to hide work tools or to get rid of them...
...Socks Sock City Lady's Budgets WASHINGTON, D. C—Silk stockings cost average city women more than any other single item of clothing, with silk and rayon dresses and street shoes ranking second and third, the bureau of labor statistics reported here...
...Forced Labor In Poland Is Told in Writ Document Outlines How ejws Are Kept In Servitude By NOFRONTIER NEWS SERVICE WARSAW, Poland—Although the outside world has heard stories about the forced labor thrust upon Jews by the Gestapo, nothing is^uitc so forceful and unanswerable on the practice as the actual text of the second ordinance concerning forced labor, which is released by the Nofrontier News Service...
...The period may be extended if, however, during this time, the educational object of the work has not been consummated...
...Jews registered for this enforced labor will have to go to the place indicated and at the time fixed for the meeting, and take with them food for two days and two clean blankets...
...Those who are not able to supply continuous labor will find tasks corresponding to their capacity for work...
...Tool Restrictions From the date of establishment of this ordinance it is forbidden to all Jews, subject to forced labor to sell, pawn or otherwise dispose of, any tools they need professionally which they have in their possession, including machines and accessories, unless by written authorization from the District commander...
...The artisans and more particularly the workshop owners will have to take all their tools with them to the meeting-place...
...The expenditures of women were almost six times as great at the high level as at the low...
...Those liable to enforced labor will, as far as possible, be put to tasks corresponding to their professions and will be grouped in work camps...
...A special order from the German authorities will fix the date of the enforced labor service...
...13 in the Warschauer Zeitung...
...It is forbidden to acquire such tools unless especially authorized to do so by the district commander...
...The ordinance defines the status of the Jewish population in the "General Government" section of Poland, and was issued by the chief of the S. S. brigades, Krueger, as general commissioner of police...
...Machines and accessories belonging to those who are liable to enforced labor will, from the moment of their being called up, be placed at the disposal of the service organizing the enforced labor...
...List Provisions It provides that: All the Jewish inhabitants from 14 years upwards to 60 years of age are in principle subject to forced labor...
...The amount spent for clothing was about four times as great for men in families with expenditures of $1,100 to' $1,200 per adult as in families with $200 to $300 to spend per equivalent adult," the report said...
...These ordinances are only partially applicable to Jews who appeal for the right to change their residence —a right which was granted to them with reference to the agreement concluded between Germany and the Soviet government, concerning the transfer of the Ukrainian and White Russian populations of the territories which are within the sphere of interest of the German state...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
