Several thousand Jews from Slovakia were reported today to have reached a labor camp near Lublin, in occupied Poland, where they will be placed at forced labor building second line fortifications on the Russian German front.
Several groups of Jews deported from Bulgaria have also been brought to the Lublin and Radom districts for forced labor, the report said. The Slovakian Jews are housed in wooden barracks, sleep on straw, and their daily food allotment is reported to consist of a plate of soup, 300 grams of bread and two cups of coffee. The Jews from Bulgaria, for the time being, are confined in ghettos where they have to provide food for themselves until removed to labor camps.
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