One Sunday Cecilie P. and other prisoners had to fetch bread for the inmates from a downtown bakery. Despite the threat of draconian punishment the women, tormented by the hunger tried to smuggle loaves of bread into the camp and were caught. Cecilie P. was beaten so heavily by a female SS guard with a big wooden cooking spoon until he broke. When she had no more tool to torment her victim she spat into the girl's face. In another case two girls who had stolen raw potatoes in the cooking barrack were shot in their legs without warning.
Nobody knows what happened to the seriously wounded girls after that.
Hunger, the freezing temperatures and the much too heavy work for the weakened prisoners took their toll. Ruth F., at that time fourteen years old, fell ill to spinal cord tuberculosis. The only treatment for the fatal illness was Aspirin. After the war had ended Mrs. F. spent several years in hospitals and sanatoriums, but still suffers from the consequences. Marketa N. severely and irreparably damaged her back dragging coal buckets for the stoves in the guards' barracks.