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Forest Camp
Forest Camp
Labor camp on an island near Danzig for Polish prisoners.
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... utal 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. ...Connected nodes