jewish people looking at dead bodies from the death marches from auschwitz
One major death march in 1944-1945
Britt D

1. death marches were a technique used to kill people from starving them and shooting them as they walked far distaces.
2. death marches were so mean. they made Jewish people walk with no food and nothing to drink.
3. Death marches were mostly held in the winter. If anybody fell behind the group or they tried to escape, they were shot.
4. The first death march was from Majdanek. This camp evacuated 3,000 prisioners and made them walk 80 miles to Kutno. Only 2,600 survived. While the survivers were packed onto trains when they reached Kutno only 2,000 of them made it to Dachau 12 days later.
5. The Nazi's were so mean to the Jewish people while they walked on death marches that some of them even commited suicide.

Amanda G~

What are death marches and why were they used?

• death marches were a forced-march long distances in unbearable conditions
• used to evacuate concentration camps when the soviet union started taking back land in the west
• nazis did not want prisoners to be liberated in good condition to tell their accounts
• some nazis beleved they could hold jews as hostage to guarantee the survival of Nazi regime
• victims marched for distances then boarded onto a train to a different camp and used as laborers for war

Why is it called Death March?

• term death marches used by prisoners because nazi intended victims to die; it was later adapted by historians
• victims died of starvation, exhaustion, disease, and cold
• if victims stopped or collapsed, guards would shoot them
• victims were murdered before, during, and after marches
• victims were brutually mistreated
• they recieved little to no food and little to no shelter

What happened to victims after the Death March?

• surviving victims were shipped in open frieght trains to other concentration camp
• others were murdered
• abandoned and left to fend for themselves or die
• murdered
• after one death march all survivors were driven into the Baltic sea and shot
• liberated

What are some other facts about Death Marches?

• largest death marches in the winter of 1944-1945
• common formation of about 5 in a row and long columns
• guards in the lead, back, and sides
• victims did not know where they were going, when they would get there, and how long they would be marching

What was the First Death March?

• 3000 evcacuated
• 80 mile march to Kutno
• july of 1944
• 2600 survived march
• packed on train to Dachau
• 2000 made it to Dachau
• from Madjanek

Britt D.

1. many evacuations of the death camps occurred in the winter of the years
2. concentration camps were evacuated and then they were destroyed from the east of Germany to the west
3. the nazi's joined the jewish people alive
4. some people froze to death while they were walking and just fell down n the snow
5. people fell into the snow and pretended they were dead and layed there until the officers left and got up and left
6. for months at time they just walked at a nearly running pace
7. death march from auschwitz went through one of the worst snow storms ever recorded in history
8. Lily Appelbaum Malnik was a survivor who walked in the death march from auschwitz-birkeneu
9. when you couldn't get some jewlery out of your ears or something while walking to the camp they just cut that partof your body off
10. men had to wear stripped black and white jackets to show they were jewish males
11. prisoners walked for a while and then got on trains and cattle cars and boats
12. made them march in snow with bare feet
13. brutally abused while marching( whipped, shot, smacked)

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