Place · city
Gdansk
גדאַנסק
Gdansk is listed among cities whose merchants traded in the region.
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... PR דעם IP OWN האַנדל TINY PR גופא, זיינען
אַמערסטנס געווען UPN די אידן TID טיקאָצין, ביאַלי
סטאָק, אַרלי TIX באָטשעק. זיי TINT געהאַנדלט מיט סוחרים
פון גראָדנע, װאַרשע, טאָרנע TIX גדאַנסק. מען “YX ONT
בראַכט TN אַוועקגעפירט פאַרשיידענע סחורה APN גרויסע
װאַגענס, OND זיינען געווען איײינגעשפּאַנט TIN MUS PNR פיר
פערד. PR אַלגעמײן TINA אידישע סוחרים WIV? PN צייט,
PR דער געגנט TH ביאַליסטאָק, “PT פאַרנומען מיט
האנדלען סחורה פון 160 פאַרשיידענע מינים,Source passage 2
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... ined 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. ...Connected nodes
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