By the summer, there were 500 Jews from Kraśnik, Bełżyce, Janów Lubelski, Mińsk, Mohylów, Smoleńsk, Vienna, and Slovakia.

That fall, 400 prisoners of war arrived from the ghettos in Końskowola and Lublin, while 100 sick, elderly, and very young inmates were deported to Belzec extermination camp.

[2] Conditions in Budzyn were somewhat bearable, due to the efforts of the Nazi-appointed camp elder, Noah Stockman.

In one case, some prisoners stole weapons from the military factories where they worked and escaped to the forest to join the Partisans.

In July 1944, Budzyn was evacuated and the prisoners were sent to nearby camps at Płaszów and Mauthausen.