In order to properly organise provision of food to the labourers, a Section
for Labour Camps Food Provision was organised within the framework of the
Department of Forced Labour.
In late June 1940, endeavours began to release all those summoned and
ended successfully as the whole group was released on 15 July 1940.
The next batches received remuneration from the Water Management
Board, initially minimum 10 up to 16 zlotys per week (piecework).
The Department paid additional 24 zlotys per week to their total earnings.
The Water Management Board established a special Jewish office (11 clerks)
to calculate the Jewish labourers’ earnings. With the normalisation of the
earnings, the Water Management Board began to receive applications from
volunteers. As a result, compulsory work orders became unnecessary as the
number of volunteers significantly exceeded that work detail’s demand for
workforce. In November 1940, the number of labourers employed at the engineering works reached 1,600.
In June 1940, the Water Management Board commenced engineering
works in Przyrów.⁵⁰⁶ It demanded 500 Jewish labourers, but it managed
to reduce that number to 300. The establishment of the labour camp in
Przyrów provided the Water Management Board, to which the Labour Camp
Management was also incorporated in the meantime, with a new issue. Being
one organisational whole, dealing with all labour, both on local work details
and those operated in labour camps, the management of the Department
of Forced Labour began to organise a camp in Przyrów. The possibilities of
accommodation, food provision, etc. were investigated there. The first group
of 300 labourers was sent with a Jewish physician and two paramedics. The
newcomers received typhus vaccines there. The labourers were accommodated
in private Jewish homes and also partly in a school in Zarębice.⁵⁰⁷ The Water
Management Board appointed a Jewish clerk responsible for food provision
to ensure proper nourishment. The labourers received: bread and coffee for
breakfast, a midday meal with meat, and bread and coffee for supper. For
some time, they were also given a warm supper. [This was] Irrespective of
the bread rations from the Water Management Board. The Department initially
issued 300 grams and then even as many as 600 grams of bread per day
506 Przyrów (Radomsko County).
507 Zarębice (Radomsko County).
