Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The last 74,000 inhabitants of the Lodz Ghetto had already been sent to Auschwitz. The only remaining Jews in the former ghetto were several hundred whom the Germans inducted to remove, and crate for shipment to Germany, the belongings of those sent to Auschwitz. The Germans intended to murder these Jews before their retreat from Lodz, but the prisoners, watching the Germans prepare this action, escaped and went into hiding. The Red Army entered Lodz on January 19. Of the
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Red Army soldiers entered the camp in the early afternoon of January 27 and found 600 corpses of prisoners whom the Germans had murdered several hours before they fled. However, they also found 7,650 living prisoners, ill and exhausted, who survived because the Germans fled too hastily to force them to join the death marches. The Germans also had no time to empty or destroy the storage facilities in which they kept the victims´ possessions. Thus, the Soviets found 350,000
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
In the great evacuation of Gross-Rosen which is situated in lower Silesia, 40,000 prisoners were removed from the main concentration camp and from several sub-camps. These people were led over great distances on foot, under conditions of starvation and serious lack of equipment. Anyone who fell, or struggled to continue walking, was shot by the guards; the bodies were hurled to the sides of the road. Thousands were murdered en route; the rest were taken to several camps: Dora-Mittelbau, Flossenbuerg,
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