All Rumanian Jews who are unable to prove that they worked for at least five days at clearing snow from the streets and roads will be sent to Jewish labor battalions which have been set up in the Transnistria district, the Rumanian-held section of the Soviet Ukraine, it was reported today by the Donau Zeitung a Nazi paper for the Balkan countries.
This new decree of the Rumanian Ministry of Labor applies to all Jews who are subject to labor service. Those who cannot produce official certificates attesting to their having performed snow clearing duty will be immediately taken into custody and sent to the camps, the Nazi paper states.
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