The appearance of the Meister on the Appellplatz in the first half of 1943 heralded probably the most significant change in the daily life of the camp since it opened four years earlier. From now on prisoners might be ordered to line up outside at any time and driven off to destinations unknown. Women returning from their daily work gangs to their blocks would find that friends, sisters, mothers and daughters had vanished from the camp, often never heard of again.
