 Documents found by the Jewish Museum in Vilnius show that the camp housed 1234 Jewish men, women and children.Initially, only men were employed in vehicle repair workshops in and around the camp; however, later after an attempt was made by the SS to transfer the women and children to the Kaunas concentration camp in January 1944, Major Plagge engaged two clothing manufacturers to set up clothing repair shops in the top two floors of one of the Apartment buildings and put the women and older children to work so that they would not appear to be idle to outside observers.Plagge also gave orders that "the civilians are to be treated with respect" and thus the camp was largely free of the abuse and brutality found in most slave labor camps in Nazi-occupied Poland.