More than 2,000 Exodus refugees now housed at a camp at Emden are living under extremely crowded conditions and have been suffering intensely from a cold wave which has blanketed the area for the past few days.
Although the refugees’ inspection team found a coal pile at the camp before the main body of refugees set out from the Poppendorf camp, near Lubeck, all the fuel was removed before the Jews arrived. The intense cold has endangered the health of everyone, since the visaless immigrants have not yet recovered from their months at sea abcard the blockade runner and, later, British prison ships.
At present there are six to eight persons in every room in use in the three-storied barracks. Some of the rooms are empty because the British have not made promised repairs and they are unfit for habitation. The main ballroom has been converted into a dormitory for about 100 persons.
The situation is slightly better at the Wilhelmshaven camp, but here too the major building repairs have not been done. The final shipment of 800 persons from the Am Stau camp, sister center to Poppendorf, arrived this morning.
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