A program of forced labor for all Jews in that Lublin reservation, Nazi Poland, was announced at a meeting of Nazi leaders and mayors in that district, the Nazi Organ Krakauer Zeitung, discloses.
Addressing the meeting, held under the chairmanship of Paul Ernst Zoerner, District Commissar for the Lublin Reservation, Government Counselor Jache declared this action had been decided upon to use all labor in the region. The Elite Guard and police had taken the initial measures to enforce the program, the counselor said.
All Jews will be forced to work but will have a choice of work which will permit them to maintain their families, he said. The work of the Jews will be under the direct supervision of the Labor Office, not the Elite Guards and police, it was added.
Those voluntarily reporting for work will be compensated under the fixed scale of benefits provided by social insurance. Those seeking to evade work or engage in clandestine traffic will be to undertake forced labor payable only when it exceeds minimum production.
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