the first two batches of people from jersey arrived in what was formerly a hitler youth summer camp, but now consisted of 23 barrack huts surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers. each hut contained 84 people in rooms intended for 18. the men were kept separated from the women and children. there were two hospital huts, storerooms, canteen, cookhouse, washing facilities and shower block, police and prison camp. a school was set up in the hut that contained german officers. sanitary conditions were improved in late 1942 after complaints were made. the camp was crowded, though not as much as in the bergen-belsen concentration camp, where similar huts held 500 each.