1942-1944 Date name Method of exit Equipment preparation Travel Where arrived March 1942 Cpl. T. McGraph From main camp Well equipped. Civilian clothes, razor, food, money Sheltered 3 months in Toruń, given papers and new identity and escorted by organization to Spain passing all controls Spain via Belgium and France June 1942 S/Ldr B. Paddon RAF From main camp slipped away from a local working party An officer to Toruń for Martial court. Within few hours got away completely equipped: clothes, maps, money, foreign worker’s papers By slow trains to Gdynia, found no ships, came back to Gdańsk (Danzig) Sweden June 1943 B.S.M. A. Paton Pte. L. Green Through window and wire of working party in Graudenz Well prepared with clothes, papers and contracts prepared Train to Gdyn...
This blog is dedicated to people who were imprisoned in Stalag XXA in Thorn in 1939-45. We would like to show you that in the shadows of the beautiful gothic city there is also forgotten history.