… One day, unfortunately I don’t remember the exact date, an inmate escaped. She escaped during the day, from work. At the time we were working near the Soła river flowing in the vicinity of the camp. We were raking something, some prisoners were cutting wicker. It all happened, if I remember well, in June 1942. After we returned to the camp, when the pursuit of the escapee proved unsuccessful, late in the evening female prisoners had their hair cut. It was probably because of the escape. I don’t remember her name. The next day, the entire group of Polish female prisoners was transferred to the village of Budy. I was also in this group. It was our group that starded the women’s penal company. 

After one hard day in mid-June—we were counted in the field—the number was not correct—one escaped—the news was like a whistle of sinister wind before the storm blowing through our rows. It was not, however, something new for us—poor inmates had already hidden a few times, thinking about the escape, but unfortunately, they paid the price of their lives for only a thought, and here the guards were searching—camp police had already arrived, they turned the hay over, where the women were working on that day—not a single trace. We came back to the camp late. In the men’s camp, they were decimating for the escape—what was going to happen to us? The question troubled 200 people. Finally, the sentence was reached—shaving off the head. Inmates accepted it quite calmly—better hair than head. But it was not the end—the entire Kommando was transferred as a form of punishment to the village of Budy for hard work. … The escapee’s name was Julia [Janina] Nowak; she was from Łódź and was not a political prisoner, after nine months she came back, she was brought to Auschwitz again.