As early as April 1942, there were rumours that the officers of the Gross-Born camp would be evacuated to a more comfortable camp. This rumour became reality in May. From 14 to 17 May, the exchange between the Polish officers of Oflag IIB in Arnswalde and our camp took place.
Blocks II and III were regrouped on blocks I and IV and we witnessed the arrival of a first contingent of Poles who took possession of the barracks abandoned by their tenants who, the next day left for Arnswalde. The following two days, the same operation was repeated for the remaining blocks. We will tell you more about this exchange later.
So, on 15 and 17 May 1942, we moved to Oflag IIB.

Barbed wire encircled a vast rectangle, 380 metres long from west to east and 240 metres wide from north to south. In total, an area of about 91,000 square metres, or 9 hectares. After deducting the barbed wire, the interior surface of the camp represented, for the prisoners' evolutions, a territory of about 85,000 square metres, or 8 and a half hectares. To this rectangle, it is true, one must add an appendix to the north-east, near the camp's entrance gate, a building which served as a dining hall, housing for the Abwehr (**), and a place for collecting parcels, but access to which was often granted sparingly.
Moreover, this living space, which was much smaller than the one in Gross-Born, was reduced in June 1942, two weeks after our arrival.
The barbed wire itself was followed within its fortified enclosure by a protective wire, fixed on posts 80 centimetres above the ground. This first fence ran around the camp, about one metre inside the barbed wire belt. We were informed that those who wanted to recover objects that had fallen beyond this first obstacle would be shot at without warning by the sentries perched in their watchtowers (***). "The buildings of this new camp were beautifully arranged: four buildings, facing each other in pairs, formed the bulk of our rooms. To the north-east was block I, to the south-east block II. Opposite them, were two other buildings , beyond a vast rectangular courtyard: opposite block I, block III; opposite block II, block IV. "To the north, the building of the refectory, the post office and the Abwehr; to the south, the gymnasium, the "Turnhalle".

"There were still too many of us to fit into the four blocks. To the west of the camp was a second zone occupied by six garages, numbered 3 to 8 and originally intended for the machines and vehicles of a motorised regiment. Some of them, partially or totally, were filled by the surplus of officers and troops. Garage 5 remained, as with the Poles, assigned to the theatre. "Five watchtowers, two on the southern edge, one on each of the other three sides, completed the set.
After the sand and the rabbit huts, steppe and cement reigned supreme.»

Here again, it is really very difficult to assess the population of this camp. We have said that about 3,000 prisoners (officers and men) left Gross-Born for Arnswalde. But during the two and a half years that we had to stay there, there were many fluctuations: departures of special assignments, sick and also some departures for voluntary work, transfers to other camps - in particular Lübeck -  - but these departures were compensated by the arrival of comrades from other camps, sometimes dismantled (Schubin in August 42 - Schoken in August 43 - Montwy in May 44 - Wagna in September 44).
It can be assumed that the camp's number of prisoners remained between 2,500 and 3,000 prisoners.