He must learn how to deal with the inmates and survive the nightmarish conditions.

Scarcely less grim were the East German uranium mines, to which tens of thousands of workers (including thousands of women) were conscripted every year to work in nightmarish conditions, knee-deep in radioactive slime.

Deborah Young of AP, writing in The Hollywood Reporter, said "The filmmaking is most powerful as a document of the nightmarish conditions in the camp, where the starving men are led to the extremes of cannibalism.

On Long Island, Bill Bendel, a spokesman for the Nassau County Police, told of nightmarish conditions on "black ice" - asphalt with a hard glaze.

It was 25 years ago that Geraldo Rivera, using a stolen key, entered the Willowbrook State School for the mentally retarded and exposed its nightmarish conditions on WABC-TV.

American officials estimate that there are 240,000 surviving slave laborers, about half Jewish, who were held in concentration camps and forced to work under nightmarish conditions.

As the fund is envisioned, former slave laborers, prisoners in concentration camps who worked without pay under nightmarish conditions, will be entitled to one-time payments of up to 15,000 marks, or less than $7,500.

The piece details the nightmarish conditions under which children in these borderline institutions live.

Perhaps more than anyone else at the 420-bed hospital, Dr. Baraka, 70, saw how Ms. Mouro helped keep the hospital functioning in nightmarish conditions, with days when scores of bodies piled atop each other in corridors.

The disease renders victims blind; a nightmarish condition to Ildirans who are essentially 'afraid of the dark', eventually driving them mad to the point of death.