European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Who attend school six mornings a pose a problem for the Camp by Weening out clothing faster than it can be older students Are Given Chance to learn various Here two of them work at a training courses Are of two months Camp All maintain Camps have their own courts to Settle minor mete out punishment for infractions of Camp group of Dps from Germany leaves for Norway he will be among in out of a total of some 1200 about eight Hundred have registered for total som tire of waiting and Many have applied for More than one some Are swayed one Way or another by letters and their descriptions of conditions in foreign for those who to go to Palestine there is no sme tire of waiting and hit the illegal most remain in the zone where their temporary existence has become an important occupation conditions in the zones 157 Camps vary Schwarzen a former concentration Camp and a Germany army training is still a fenced in group of wooden Barracks Midway Between Giessen and it was originally taken Over to House about 2100 polish Baltic but its present Popula Tion Seldom reaches a it is a transient and groups of from fifty to three Hundred often without for screening and distribution to other billeting space is comparatively each family has a room usually about Twenty feet by it in most a table and a there Are about ten of these rooms and one Kitchen in each one Story wooden a contrasting picture is presented at where there Are no Gates other restrictions to set the Camp aside from the rest of the within a four or five Block area lie 140 houses taken Over from the the rooms Are much smaller than Schwarze Boms and afford an average Billet of persons per this works out to one room for a married with a second if they have a single persons sleep two to a at near there is no Large Block of but instead single Homes scattered through the German space is allowed by the cubic and some rooms hold six or seven Nieburgs about is Al most equally third one third and one third Chil Dren under it has been in operation Only a few and its organization has been slowed by its physical in some cases where both husband and wife or where there Are Small Chil German maids have been hired to come in several Days a the hired independently and in Are paid in a comparative Veteran among the zones Lamper theim opened almost two years ago and is Well Stab a clothing factory is in opera at which fifty nine men and women turn out fifty childrens Gar ments one of eight such projects in the zones jewish the factory gets material produced in Ger Man Mills from Urra warehouses in it produces clothing for children under which it returns to the Hanau warehouses for apportioning among All the while billeting standards vary from Camp to the Basic food ration is the same in a working do gets three thousand calories a a non worker two this ration by most Dps will Tell is not in some Camps it is substantially increased by american joint distribution committee other persons receive occasional packages from relatives and friends in supplement their diet with Blac Market at Urra provided each jewish do with one As a great number of the Camps Are in farming there was very Little trouble trading flour for a few extra in As in All the the administration opposes the Black when one Lampert Heim do was observed trading in american Cigar ets he was called into the directors office and confronted with testimony of his a Camp himself a As punish the culprits together with that of his was reduced to a much smaller other penalties enforced in such cases Are temporary suspension of the offenders food or several Days labor at such tasks As cutting Wood for the though the Camp discourages illegal it will do its Best to Aid a member of the Community faced with a Black Market when not involving extra Blac Market dealings Are usually aimed at the accumulation of later changed into Dollar or used to Purchase the Lamper theim a Duimstra i tons stand against the Black Market is doubly significant since the Camps director is himself a when Urra began putting in Dps As Camp the move Drew heavy opposition from some army officials on grounds that it would legalize the Black Market in the 60 per cent of the Camps in the zone Are headed by directors who Are Dps while the directors Are selected by in each Center there is also a committee elected or chosen by the committee handles much of the Camps administration and works closely with the Urra there is a court of to which All minor grievances which arise within the Camp Are politics plays a varying part in the selection of each Camps in some Camps its role is almost but in others a committee election is preceded by formation of opposing factions and candidate the Only possible answer to the problem of the jewish Dps in the zone is Emi not to a Coal for each has his own his own be it arc teacher or but the Legal immigration quotas Are Piti fully Small and do not present a few want to return to their Preitler assuming they still some who have made the trip have Cool Heads among the Dps Are preventing a illegal March toward similar to the biblical exodus of the jews from Egypt but they will not be Able to with the coming of warm an increase in the under ground migration to the holy the problem now has been shifted from the do Camps to the Hall of the United nations general what the in will be Able to do is anyone there is no Clear indication of what the answer will be or How soon it will but if it does not come soon it May Well find Many of the living in the Hills of Galilee or behind barbed wire on the Island of 5
