Back to Lexicon Entries List Forced Labour Enlistment of jobless Jews for forced labour commenced in late 1938, gathered momentum when the war began, and was imposed on all German Jews in 1940. In 1941, some 50,000 Jews performed janitorial work and laboured in construction, snow removal, and manufacturing. They were segregated and isolated from "Aryan" workers and employed under much inferior conditions. Back to top