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25: 142: 371:. Most of the prisoners, however, had been arrested on purely arbitrary grounds. The inmates established a camp committee to help them survive despite starvation, disease, hard labor, and physical and mental torture. Apart from the official committee, the camp also had an underground leadership, and, together, the two bodies persuaded the prisoners to observe discipline voluntarily. 378:, Ion, had "strong pro-Nazi sympathies" and by September 1942 he was the camp commandant in Vapniarka. He introduced severe restrictions on the supply of water. By keeping the camp meticulously clean, the prisoners were able to overcome the typhus epidemic, but they suffered from the poor quality of the food, which included 37: 424:
to supply them with medicine, and the prisoners' relatives were allowed to send them parcels. It was only at the end of January that the prisoners were no longer fed with the animal fodder that had caused the disease, but 117 Jews were paralyzed for life.
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men on March 19, 1944. A third group, which included most of the prisoners (565 persons), was moved to Romania in March 1944 and imprisoned in the camp for political prisoners in
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were brought to Vapniarka. On September 16 of that year, 1,046 Romanian Jews were also brought to the camp. About half had been banished from their homes on suspicion of being
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or Romanian troops. In October 1941, the Romanians established a detention camp in Vapniarka. One thousand Jews were brought to the site that month, mostly from the city of
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was approaching the region, it was decided to liquidate the camp. 80 Jews were sent to ghettos in Transnistria. 54 Communists were taken to a prison in
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convicts. Of the 1,179 Jews in the camp, 107 were women, who were housed in two huts surrounded by a triple-apron barbed-wire fence.
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in Transnistria, but were sent back to Romania and released only in December 1943–January 1944. In October 1943, when the Soviet
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of prisoners and causing paralysis. By January 1943, hundreds of prisoners were suffering from lathyrism. The inmates declared a
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In March 1943, it was found that 427 Jews had been imprisoned for no reason whatsoever. They were moved to various
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present in the pea fodder. Within a few weeks, the first symptoms of the disease appeared, affecting the
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bread that had a 20% straw content. A team of doctors among the inmates, led by Dr. Arthur Kessler of
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and demanded medical assistance. As a result, the authorities allowed the Jewish Aid Committee in
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epidemic; the others were taken out of the camp in two batches, guarded by soldiers of the
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Many of the former prisoners in Vapniarka were appointed to senior posts in
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WW2-era Romanian-run concentration camp in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
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Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania, 1940-1944
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