The museum here has by far the most extensive exhibit I’ve seen on how the Nazis transformed Polish society, controlling print and broadcast media, imposing curfews on non-Germans, rationing food and other essentials according to perceived race. It’s certainly the most political exhibit.
A docent saw me continually using my camera and asked if I was filming or taking photos – filming is forbidden but photos are fine. I showed I was taking photos and also that I spoke no Polish. She disappeared and came back a few minutes later with this book in a number of languages, asked if I spoke English, and handed me the English version. I sat down and leafed through it for a bit, finding it really thorough and interesting on a number of facets of the prison’s history, got to the end and handed it back to her. „No“, she said, pushing it back to me, „souvenir – souvenir“. I felt touched and grateful.