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In Memory of the Death Marches
from the
German Concentration Camps in 1944 and 1945
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IntroductionWell over one million prisoners suffered and died in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. About 60,000 of them experienced the liberation on 8 May 1945 – but not in Auschwitz. Only a few thousand survivors were still in the camp when the Red Army liberated it on 27 January 1945. Since the autumn of 1944 the SS had been driving the majority of prisoners away towards the west, further and further, often from one camp to another, deeper and deeper into the National Socialist Reich or areas where their henchmen were still around, defending the territory with all available means to the very last minute. |
“They saw us, they knew what was happening.”12 April 1945: from Auschwitz Fürstengrube to Sarau |
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“We fed on grass, herbs and even the bark of trees.”21 April 1945: from Sachsenhausen to Below Forest |
“Those who were still able to move.”25 April 1945: from Dachau Mühldorf to Poing and Seeshaupt |
“This was the worst camp of all.”April 1945: Wöbbelin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
