To the editor:

The Associated Press article titled “Holocaust survivor, searching for family’s graves, finds sister” (Journal-World, Nov. 30) states that George Gordon (Budzynski), who found his sister alive after 59 years, had been sent at age 14 to “Stuthoff, a Polish-only work camp,” then to Buchenwald.

It is true that Stutthof (correct spelling) was originally set up by the Gestapo near Gdansk (Danzig) as a labor/death camp for Poles, and Gordon was sent there as a Christian Pole, but prisoners of other nationalities were added during the war. In particular, 48,500 Jews of all nationalities were sent there in June-October 1944 from Auschwitz and the Baltic States. Out of 100,000 prisoners who passed through Stutthof, 65,000 were dead by the end of the war, most of them Jews.

Anna M. Cienciala,

Lawrence