This first transport collected 550 prisoners while 67 very sick prisoners were left behind.

At this stage Bernadotte had got permission to collect all sick prisoners.

The suit seeks fundamental changes in the way sick prisoners are treated.

The sickest prisoners usually end up back in jail, in a hospital emergency room or dead.

A minister of health checks daily for sick prisoners and arranges medical care.

There too, she took care of sick prisoners but became severely ill herself.

"This was very important for us; we were trying to not leave anyone behind, not even one sick or old political prisoner."

In the end phase of the war it became a concentration camp for sick and dying prisoners.

The section closest to the railway station was now used to house sick prisoners of other nationalities.

Only very sick prisoners were admitted to the camp infirmary.