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340 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
towns, cleared of their non-Jewish population. In the whole of the
General Gouvernment there are 13 ghettos, the largest being the
Warsaw ghetto, and 42 Jewish towns. [1030]
Since the invasion of the U.S.S.R., ghettos have been established
in Western Byelorussia, Western Ukraine and the Baltic States, and
also in occupied Russia.
The primary purpose of the ghettos and special Jewish towns is
the segregation of the local Jewish population. This consists of the
former inhabitants of the area which was turned into a ghetto or a
Jewish town, the inhabitants of the same town who are removed to
the ghetto, and Jews removed from other localities of the same country.
For the second and third categories segregation in the ghetto
meant compulsory removal, and for the third category forced migration
also. The number of persons affected by this internal forced migration
may have numbered many hundreds of thousands in the
General Gouvernment alone.
The ghettos of the General Gouvernment or of the Eastern Territories
are also the usual destination of the Jews deported from the
west by the German authorities or by authorities of other countries
allied to Germany.” (Emph. added)
The section which follows treats the Forced Labour Camps. After
discussing age limits, working hours and types of work, Kulischer
writes: 1031
“Up to the summer of 1941, at least 85 Jewish labor camps were
known to exist in the General Gouvernment. Of the 35 camps the position
of which was known, two-thirds were located on the eastern
frontier.
Forced labour for Jews expanded rapidly, having developed from
a subsidiary measure into an essential feature of the treatment of
Jews. In April 1942, the Gazeta �ydówska reported that 25,000 Jews
were engaged in compulsory construction work in the Warsaw district,
and on the basis of other data given by the same journal, the
1030 It was the “Polizeiverordnung über die Bildung von Judenwohnbezirken in den Distrikten
Warschau und Lublin” and the “Polizeiverordnung über die Bildung von Judenwohnbezirken
in den Distrikten Warschau und Lublin” issued by SS-Obergruppenführer
Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger in his quality of Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in the General
Government and of State secretary for security on 28 October and 10 November 1942,
respectively. The first set up 12 Judenwohnbezirke, the second 41. Cf. the list in C. Mattogno,
J. Graf, op. cit. (note 10, Engl. ed.), pp. 266f.
1031 E.M. Kulischer, op. cit. (note 1019), pp. 107-111.