of the Council of the Elders. At the Secretariat, there is also a Liquidation
Desk of the Section for Labour Camps Food Provision.
The Work Orders Division is in charge of summons to work. It also keeps
a card-index of work orders.
The Records Division: It records daily wages for work performed, and
also calculates and liquidates them.
The Complaints Division: It receives complaints from those summoned
and sends complaints for investigation. It also refers the sick for medical
examination.
The Investigations Division: It determines the addresses of the people
summoned when their summons are returned. It also investigates the financial
situation of individuals. All departments of the Council of the Elders
make use of these investigations.
The Statistics Division: This division keeps statistics of the Department
of Labour.
Labour Camps Division: It manages the labourers working for the
Wasserwirtschaft, distributes bread and food ration cards, and is in charge of
placement and exchange of labourers.
The Section for Labour Camps Food Provision allocates bread and dinner
rations to labourers working locally and at Wasserwirtschaft.
The Labour Command allocates individuals to paid and unpaid work
details. It allocates paid work.
Information: It provides information to petitioners and directs them to
suitable divisions or sections. It also keeps a register on those referred to doctors’
commissions and the category they were classified in.
Calculations: It calculates remuneration for local paid labourers. It keeps
a pay-outs register and auxiliary registers.
Cashier’s counter: It pays out remuneration to labourers employed locally
and benefits to the Department clerks.
Criminal Section: In 1940, incorporated into the Department of Forced
Labour.
Gottlieb; Section for Labour Camps Food Provision, Icek Szyja Nirenberg and Hirsz Kac; Labour Command, Lajzor Frydenberg; Information, Pola Horowicz and Henryk Sztajnic; Calculations, Rywen Wajnberg; Cashiers, Chaim Dykierman, Tobiasz Fisz, and Frajda Fiszpan. There are also the personal data of all rank and file employees of the divisions. AŻIH, Judenrat in Częstochowa, 213/3, pp. 292–305, 307, 315–320.
