By Train

By 08:00, the Swedish column finally arrived, was loaded, and departed again at 14:00. The remaining interned women, about 4,000 Poles, were to be transported by train. These women had to wait on the road almost the entire day until they could finally begin loading at 18:00. They traveled in freight cars, extremely crowded as was typical for German prisoner transports. Since the train was not expected to reach Lübeck for another two days, we anticipated that a number might die along the way. However, we later heard that only about a dozen had died.