Your Excellency:
Complying with your request I am sending you this letter, in which I should like to state briefly the critical conditions and the distressing incidents which are creating an especially grave situation for the Ukrainian population in the General Government. * * *
II. Measures of labor procurement.
The general nervousness is enhanced yet by the wrong methods to obtain labor, which have been used increasingly in recent months.
The wild and ruthless manhunt carried on everywhere in towns and country, in streets, public squares, railway stations, even in churches, as well as in homes at night, has badly shaken the sense of security of the population. Everybody is exposed to the danger of being seized anywhere and at any time by the police, suddenly and unexpectedly, and being taken into an assembly camp. The family does not know what has happened to him, until weeks or months later one or the other gives news of his fate by a postcard.
I beg to mention some instances with their respective proofs:
a. During such a drive a schoolboy in Sokal lost his life and another was wounded (App. 2).
b. 19 Ukrainian workers from Galicia, all provided with identity cards, were assigned in Krakow to a transport of “Russian prisoners of war” and delivered into a punishment camp in Graz (App. 3).
c. 95 Ukrainians from Galicia, recruited for work in Germany by the labor office in the middle of January, were sent via East Prussia to Pskov in Russia, where most of them died as a result of the very severe conditions (App. 4).