SLAVE LABOR AND PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS IN THE ARTEMOVSK AREA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONFIDENTIAECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
SUBJECT Slave Labor and Prisoner of War Camps in the
Artemovsk Area
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMIATtON
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Camp 1004
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located 20 miles south of Artemovsk, a town gout of Rbarkov. Cup 1004 helk4
approximately 12 hundred. ethnic Germans, about 300 men and 700 vomet, from 50X1
Hungary, Yugosl v a and. Rumania.' In November 1 4 all of these individuals
were released. "dlawk..21...sil the 50x1
premier of East Germany, bad petitioned Ba, n ermang held by Soviet
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authorities for their return to East Germany.
In addition there were three other slave labor camps u the
vicinity. Our actual location was in the town of Utna (phonetic)
A prisoner of war camp for jepamege
was located This ca was occupied b japenese for about
six months during the winter of 1946 - 1947,
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were about 600 Japanese confined there in one large building. 50X1
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the Japanese mar., work5ox1
lug in a central warehouse located at Tschasovyar, a town eight miles away.
I do not know where the Japanese were sent from this camp when it was '131�11111-6x1
In addition to our camp and the Japanese camp therm were also A German
prisoner of war camp and a camp for ethnic Germans from the Transylvania
district of Rumania. there were 12 hundred prisoners
of war in the German camp, ail rormer Balmier's, and about 900 civilians, men,_
women and children, in the Rumanian camp. The German priers of war left
their camp around September 1949 and re veturted to East Germany.
The Rumanians were returned to East Germany along with theHpeople from our 50X1
camp in ,November 1949 and both the German prisoner of wer44ad the Rumanian
camps were then closed,
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food was based principally roth And black bread which contained a
considerable amount o- . On rare ocoakiolo. some fooa-from
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the US alth little was ever distribupeC walp iooa 1. Leluaed oleo-
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r 1 lard, powdered eggs, powdered ilk, flour and peanut butter. The
oviet citizens were able to buy food, stores in the nearby villages, inelud-
ing US food. Al]. food was ratione nd one was required, to have a ration card.
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During the time people
principally in clay quarries While the-R4ieeleAs were e
(zevods) in making bricks.
_. Other quarries i
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worked
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where etpl:
1," were known as "YUgostal 0 Ljevaneai"
prisoners of war were
d shipped to smelter ovsoxi
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6. The railroad tracks from the quarriei were wide gauge and the wagons appear2x1
similar to US gondola cars. Large,-Coil-burninglasteam locomotives were usr5.20x,
to haul these trains. There were a I:m.0er of trucks in and around the quar7c71
which were similar to the two and one-half ton trucks the US Amy
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use. one personal auto in the whole camp. It
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a car of Soviet make and was used by Paul kihailovitch Ktitorov, the quarry 50X1
director.
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Coal nines were located abOut 30 tiles
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mostly women were employed in
be mines and that they had tOcIithb:dbiin either 165 or 265 steps on ladders50n
to where they worked. Ithe mines were frevently 50X1
flooded.
All of the camps had guards
barrack buildings one for
made or attempted.
a truck driver.
had sold
o consisted of three large
Me anaitwo for women. Ver seldom were any escall
lone'cise- in which two youthsoxi
their Uotherfrom ome for money and then bribed.5oxl
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they had successfully escaped to Rumania.
I The older people who had liTed 50X1
anaer tne Czars And had known private oWnerthipI of land and churches were vesoxi
unhappy under the CoMmunist regime-. Some expressed hope that the US would
come and. release them. A number of-thAliree Soviet workers had. been sent to
had his
our area without their tamiliei.-One-older men
family at Sevastopol and he received leave once a year to visit them. 50X1
10. The Soviet quarry workers resided At Tsohasovyar in long two-story buildings.
The first floor contained the common kitchen for all residents) a dining hall
and a store. The residents lived on the second floor with from eight to 10
boys per room while the same number Of girls would live in other rooms. The
young girls were taught and worked t ell types of trades, such as eleck.ricansoxi
welders,etAsetera.. One girl was An Ongineer-on one of the small quarry
locomotives. There were numeroui fenele guards everywhere protecting supplies,
coal dumps and store roams. These guarde did not wear any one type of uniform
but were trained together in marching and drilling. 50X1
11-,.,,i an attenpt was made to teach Soviet htkory a
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ate us in Communis* although none of the inmates were interested,
encounter any antiUS propaganda no newspapers anrt sox'
the only radio wasyOne in the town square of Ulna mbotab.had a loud, speaker on
a pole giving for propaganda constantly. - -50X1:-- -
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