The children worked just as their peers did in the ghetto, on the other side of a high wall. They even had the same teachers - the Jewish artisans, escorted there by the Nazi authorities. The children stitched clothes, made straw shoes, mended knapsacks and straightened out needles. Many of them died of starvation, cold and emaciation, especially during the typhus epidemic that broke out in late 1942 and early 1943. Records document 136 deaths. The children that fell ill were sent to the hospital at 74 Dworska St. (what is now Organizacji WiN Street) in the ghetto. The Polish children in this camp were completely isolated from the outside world and had no contact with the people from the other side of the wall.