On 19 June 1942, we arrived at the SS labour camp Mielice (district Krakow). The labour camp was designated for Jews only, and was situated in the grounds of the Heinkel aeroplane factory. At the time of my arrival, the number of Jews working there was approximately 100. About 5,000 Poles and 500 Germans worked in the factory proper. Every day after work, the Poles and the Germans would go back to their homes; but the Jews had to return to their camp barrack. The aeroplane factory had very modern instal­lations; before the war it was the largest Polish aeroplane factory. The Jews here were divided into two categories according to their work: production Jews, that is, those who were involved in actual production; and the unpro­ductive ones who were the ‘assistant workers’, who were assigned to garden work, transport and so on. Also, those Jews who were assigned to ‘greater’ Berdichev (the region of Volhynia, now the disrict of Zhitomir in Ukraine) which belonged to the factory were designated ‘unproductive’ workers.