Event · Forced Labor Order
Potato edict imposed
In October 1942, girls and women aged sixteen to fifty in the Bialystok ghetto were ordered to report for slave labor harvesting potatoes.
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... In October 1942, orders were issued that girls and
women, from sixteen to fifty, must report for slave
labor. The specific task was harvesting potatoes from
the fields, so the new requirement to enslave women
became known as the ‘“‘potato edict.” This was a most
upsetting development for the Jews in the Bialystok
ghetto. ...Connected nodes