58,000 men and woman were forced onto death marches.
January 1945
because there was nothing else to do with them, apart from killing or releasing them.
Death marches were so tragic because lots of people died.
there were two main reasons: the marches occurred because the camps from which they started were under threat of liberation, so the inmates were marched to another camp the marches were a way of killing the participants, some marches did not even reach their destination, they would just keep marching until all of the charges died or the guards deserted
at liberation there were about 7 500, but many of these died soon after. There were about 100 000 more survivors who had been in Auschwitz.
The Death Marches took place between 1944 and 1945. Prisoners were forced to march for tens of miles in the snow to travel from camp to camp. No one really knows ho many people survived these marches but what is known is that around 250,000 Jews died during the marches.
they were forced to walk 200 miles to boot camp without drink or food and they didn't get rest and if you fell they killed you and left you there to rot
There were many Death Marches during World War II and the Holocaust. The first were observed during 1942 and the last marches in 1945.
Shmuel had lived somewhere in Poland but was forced into 'Out-with' which is known as Auschwitz, a death camp from WWII
Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Army on 27 January 1945. Shortly before that, the SS had blown up the gas chambers and had sent most of the prisoners on death marches to other camps. The Soviet forces had no use for Auschwitz and it was abandoned, but in 1947 the Polish government decided to preserve part of it as a museum.
That is a fine question.Most have never heard of it. I don't understand why.It was just as brutal and horrible as the Death Marches that the Nazis forced the Jews to do.
As the Soviet Union advanced through Eastern Europe and drove the Germans back in 1944 and 1945, many of the concentration camps were evacuated and the prisoners forced to march westward, in order to prevent their liberation by the invading Soviets. These are referred to as the death marches.