for sick prisoners. Each bed had two or three patients. Throughout [18] the entire two-week period of her hospital stay, Bella was so successful at simulating the disease that none of the doctors realised it. Luckily, she did not get sick herself, although she nursed her ailing bedfellow. Two weeks passed and the doctors found her to be sufficiently “recovered” to leave the hospital. Her father tried very hard to persuade the doctors to keep her there as long as possible. But nothing helped. Several doctors had been arrested for helping prisoners and keeping them in the hospital. Then came the day of the trial. Eighteen other defendants were there along with Bella. An ambulance transported them to the “Sonder-Gericht”739 summary court at Długa Street 7. The judge asked why she had gone to the “other side”, and she replied that she wanted to go to her aunt in the country, as everyone was starving at home, and she had not known about the decree [19] at that time, and had never thought that anything bad could happen to her on the way. Fortunately, at the trap she managed to pass her goods to a “plainclothesman” so they never found anything on her. Most of the accused were sentenced to death, but Bella miraculously got a milder sentence, “only” three years in prison, which under such terrible conditions was tantamount to a certain death from disease or starvation . . . She went back to the prison. Many prisoners died of starvation, not to mention the epidemic. One day, a new detainee arrived in the cell, a 17-year-old beautiful girl, Maniusia Frydman, almost completely unconscious. They had caught her on the other side. At the police station, policemen raped her and then, after this heinous deed, they sent her to prison. Throughout her stay in prison, she suffered from violent attacks. [20] She kept screaming “blood”, “child”; she would run out of the cell and at night she had nervous shocks, and did not allow the rest of them to sleep. A German doctor came specially, confirmed the matter, and promised to immediately release the arrested woman. But apparently the intervention of the German doctor failed. On 9 January, the prisoners learned that they would be released after the payment of a contribution in the amount of 1,5 million zloty740 . Bella was not released until
