Upon their arrival in the camp, the people are registered and have to surrender their ration cards and the keys to their flats. Those Jews deemed fit for labour were put to work by Zeiss Ikon AG at its nearby Goehle plant at Heidestrasse 4. There they worked in a system of two daily shifts manufacturing timed fuses for the navy. Shortly before the camp was opened, the Gestapo designated Siegmund Selig Lehner as camp leader. Elias Lichtenstein was named technical administrator. The camp consisted of a total of seven huts. Six served as prisoners' quarters and one as a common building. About 16 people were quartered in the three rooms of each hut. Unmarried men and women lived separately, married couples together. Children above the age of four had to live alone, segregated by sex. In addition to a common dining room, two large washrooms and baths and an infirmary, the camp also included a tailor shop, a shoemaker's workshop and a barbershop. There was no fence around the compound, but a checkpoint was established to regulate access to the camp.