February 1945 February 1945Since she’d found out that a group of five hundred Polish officers, including Peter, had been transferred to the Oflag Gross Born, deep in Pomerania, worry and guilt consumed Anna. Obviously she couldn’t voice her concerns to Professor Scherer or she’d already have asked him what dumb pencil pusher had decided to move Home Army prisoners into the den of the lion. Everyone, even the dumbest Nazi, knew how Stalin’s army treated the Poles who’d been fighting for their country. But maybe that was exactly their plan, getting rid of the prisoners without even lifting a finger. She carefully investigated and much to her horror found out that the entire camp at Gross Born had been evacuated and all prisoners put on an excruciating march to Sandbostel, some five hundre

