FREED WOMEN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 156, 6 May 1940, Page 6

FREED WOMEN

NAZI VICTIMS REACH ENGLAND After months in a Nazi gaol and a 40-hour journey across Germany in a windowless prison railway van, eight British women and two boys, arrived in England. Miss Ida Daniels, who was gover- ' ness in the service of Princess Czartoryski, in Poland, declared that the Germans were confident that they would be able to treat England in the same way as they had Poland. "They told me that they would march through England quicker than they marched through Poland, and that England would be made a protectorate of Germany," she. said. Miss Daniels said that at one prison she was crowded with 10 other people into one room. They were told that they were "dirty Polish, and English, full of lice and mustj not take anything into the place." "It was interesting to hear whatsome "of the Germans thought.' Miss Daniels continued. "One told me that Mr Chamberlain, Mr Winston Churchill and Mr Eden ought to be hanged. Names Shouted. ,: ()n some occasions we were treated rather as if we were pigs, our names being called out repeatedly in a commanding sort of voice.' 1 Miss Maude Vickery, who has been an English teacher in Cracow lor .'JO years, is partially paralysed.- For this reason, she said, she was nol arrested by the Gestapo until midOctober, 10 days after the other Brit ish women in tlie city. "\Ve were taken to the prison at lieutlien," she said. "Three of the British women, being Jewesses, were placed in a separate cell. The other five of us. with the two boys, had to share one small room. There was no place to move about, as our beds and table filled the cell. Other members- of the party were Miss Edith Allen, a teacher of English; Mrs Sophie Brown, and her two sons; Mrs M. Peace; Miss Polly Eder and the Misses Mary and Sarah Rundstein.