 He witnessed the arrival of trainloads of Jews to the extermination camp.Coward and other British prisoners smuggled food and other items to the Jewish inmates.He also exchanged coded messages with the British authorities via letters to a fictitious Mr. William Orange (Code for the War Office), giving military information, notes on the conditions of POWs and the other prisoners in the camps, as well as dates and numbers of the arrival of trainloads of Jews.