has to pay the remaining one zloty.) Kehillah representatives often visit the
camp and acquaint themselves with the condition of their people. The behaviour
of the Ukrainians towards the Jews is quite decent. They only mete out
brutal beatings for thieving and also imprison [people].
[16] In response to the question put to the camp guards as to how long the
camp will exist, they answer that it will last until winter and possibly beyond.
In the camp, there are also Polish workers who are not barracked there
and who go home to sleep.⁵⁶⁵ The only ones who have to remain in the camp
are those who have “committed the sin” of coming late to work or who miss
work days. The Poles receive the same rations, but their salary is 20 per cent
higher than that of the Jews. There is also medical care provided in the camp.
The doctor is a German; the orderlies are Jews. The doctor tends to the sick
in the camp every day. One can go to him directly. The sick and the infirm
are sent home twice a week. The relatively bearable conditions in the camps
attract Jews to the work. They apply voluntarily. So, for example, volunteers
are now coming from Warsaw.
In connection with seizing Jews for work, there is talk of expelling Jews
from the following towns: Kłobuck, Szczekociny near Żarki⁵⁶⁶ (Będzin district,
Reich⁵⁶⁷).
ARG I 718 (Ring. I/440)
Description: original or duplicate; handwritten (LEG*), notebook, ink,
150×195 mm, minor damage and fragments missing; text partly illegible; duplicates: “Częstochowa – on the train” and “Ostrowiec” – 2 copies, “The labour
camp in Rejów” – 3 copies (typewritten, 208×295 mm, major damage and fragments missing); Yiddish, 22 sheets, 31 pages. On the reverse of p. 3 of the first
copy of typewritten duplicate, notation by Hersh Wasser in Yiddish (ink):
“June 1942, 8 pages.”
Edition based on the handwritten text, 8 sheets, 16 pages, supplemented by the
first copy of the typewritten duplicate.
565 At the HASAG plant, Poles were not considered prisoners.
566 The distance between Szczekociny and Żarki is approximately 40 km.
567 Kłobuck belonged to Blachstädt County (the combined pre-war counties of Blachownia and Ostrów) in Opole Regierungsbezirk, in the territories annexed to the Reich. Jews were deported to Auschwitz on 22 June 1942. Szczekociny was in the Radom District of the GG, in the Jędrzejów County. Jews were deported to Treblinka on 21 September 1942. See Obozy hitlerowskie; A. Rutkowski, “Martyrologia,” Table VI.
