Sing Sing

... דער טורמע ‏ טשערװאָניאַק", PNR OND‏ אַ PM‏ קאָפּיע TID‏ דער אַמעריקאַנער טורמע , סינג-סינג", ...

taken to an unknown destination on a brutal journey. As it turned out, we were driven to Grodno and con- fined to its prison. Three days later, we boarded the bus again, convinced that we would die of thirst and heat. Our next stop was Lomza, where we were incarcerated in a prison resembling Sing Sing in New York. Life in the Lomza prison was horrendous. The only food given to us was potato peels and warm water. Our guards were sadists. We lived like this for several months, which seemed like an eternity. One day we boarded buses, and several days later our vehicle was taken aboard a ferry. We thought the Nazis meant to drown us. The next day, when the boat docked, we were driven into a large forest. At the entrance a sign read: ‘‘Forest Camp.”’ We later learned that this island was near Danzig (Gdansk), a labor camp for Poles. It would take too much space to describe how the Polish inmates hated the Jews brought to their camp. ...