Deplorable conditions among Jews in enforced labor camps in Poland are described in the Polish Fortnightly Review. The camps are situated for the most part along the Soviet frontier, which has been strongly fortified by the Germans. The barracks are unheated, the food is bad, beatings are incessant and clothing is inadequate.
The death rate is high, said to reach ten per cent, six per cent attributed to illness and four per cent to executions. When some military works were finished, the Jews employed in building them were shot. In a camp at Debica near Cracow, “delinquent” Jews were bound with wet leather thongs which, when they dried, hardened on the Jews to the extent that they lost consciousness.
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