In evening they give one loaf of bread for one week and a little bit of jello from red beats. You know with sugar. So if I got bread for one week, that’s my food. One loaf of bread like that. Dinnertime with the big container was barley with water…a little salt.

Day of day the same and hunger you go to bed they eat you bed bugs and I can’t complain the German bother you.

The only one general I didn’t like he says ‘you have only one law…be alive! That’s all.’

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German guards at the POW camp made photographs of their prisioners for identification cards. Mr. Orlowski (pictured at left with fellow officer Edward Kobik) was given copies of his ID photograph, which he mailed home to his family in Poland.
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