much better than in the main camp. The POWs received better food there, and they had contact with people from the outside, despite the fact that such contacts were forbidden. Some camps were large and created for a particular project. Camp 34 - Construction of a large housing project for German colonists. Elbing camp Konitz camp Bromberg Dynamit Nobel AG Factory in Bydgoszcz Historical Note: British actor Sam Kydd was a prisoner in one of these camps throughout the war. During his internment, where he remained for the next five years, he took command of the camp's theatrical activities - devising and staging plays. He felt so strongly about his work there that, when he was offered repatriation after three years, he turned it down to continue with his theatrical work. While imprisoned in a sub-camp in Wyrzysk, Sam Kydd had contact with local Poles and learned various phrases in Polish. Notable prisoners Aonghas Caimbeul, Private in 51st (Highland) Division from the Isle of Lewis. He subsequently became a highly important figure in 20th century Scottish Gaelic literature as both a war poet and award-winning memoirist. Peter Conder, British soldier, ornithologist and conservationist Okey Geffin, South African soldier and rugby union player Sam Kydd, British soldier and actor Tommy Macpherson, British officer, escapee from the camp Frank McLardy, British soldier and Nazi collaborator Airey Neave, British soldier, lawyer and Member of Parliament Brian Paddon, Royal Air Force pilot, escapee from the camp , Australian soldier, who escaped from the camp, joined the Polish resistance and took part in the Warsaw Uprising John Stephenson, British soldier, Sherwood Foresters. See also List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany References Reports of British prisoners External links Hanna Bukowska: Obóz jeniecki Stalag XXA w Toruniu 1939-1945. Rocznik Toruński 40 (2013). Further reading Aonghas Caimbeul (1973), Suathadh ri Iomadh Rubha, eachdraidh a bheatha ed. Iain Moireach, Gairm, Glasgow. (In Scottish Gaelic) Kydd, Sam (1974). For You The War Is Over. London: Futura. Morrison, Charles (1989). We've Been A Long Time Coming Boys. Haddington: Albyn Press. Longden, Sean (2005). Hitler's British Slaves. London: Constable. . Mansel, John. "The Mansel Diaries" (1977). Privately printed. Foster, Steve & Clark, Alan (2018) "The Soldier who came back" World War II prisoner of war camps in Germany History of Toruń Military history of Poland during World War II World War II sites in Poland