A medical survey conducted by the camp doctors in January 1945 revealed that the average male had lost fifty-one pounds and the average female thirty-two. More than half of that weight was lost just since August 1944. “I was worried about a lump in my stomach,” Goldthorpe, the nurse, confided in her diary on January 5, 1945. “Then I found it was my backbone. I never expected to feel that from the front.”
