Gulag kilde: Ankomst af fanger til Gulag, 1944

The prisoners arrived in unheated wagons which had not been prepared for prisoner transport. In each wagon, there were between 10-12 bunks, on which no more than 18 people could fit, yet there were up to 48 people in each wagon. The wagons were not supplied with enough canisters for water, as a result of which there were interruptions in water supply, sometimes for whole days and nights. The prisoners were given frozen bread, and for 10 days got none at all. The prisoners arrived dressed in summer uniforms, dirty, covered in lice, with obvious signs of frostbite…the sick prisoners had been rolled on to the wagon floors, without medical help, and had died there and then. Corpses were kept in the wagons for long periods…