POW/MIA Room at Lasdon Park

and Arboretum,

Somers, NY

 

The exhibit is comprised of drastic 

treatment and historically important facts of American Prisoners of 

War.

  • The capture and sending Jewish American soldiers to slave labor concentration camps.

 

  • The inhuman treatment of our men and women on the Baton March and secret pictures of Stalag Luft from which  "The Great Escape"  was made.

 

  • Also on exhibit is a  replica of the secret "Pin Hole " camera that was used for most of  the pictures.

 

  •  Few historians knew that Former President Andrew jackson was a POW. He was captured by the British at a very young age.

 

  •  The bunk room with the body bag on the floor was  where a member of our chapter was imprisoned as a slave laborer because he was a Jew.