Some were volunteers; others joined to escape the German prisoner-of-war camps, where death rates ran at a frightful two in five.16 ‘Russian war prisoners,’ wrote Leon Weliczker, a Janowska Street survivor, ‘consisted of the most varied types of characters. There were some who were really worse than the SS, but, on the other hand, there were also many who merely filled the job in order to secure for themselves a better means of livelihood.’
