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.