"On Auschwitz" (42): Death Marches from Auschwitz towards Wodzisław Śląski and Gliwice

On January 17, 1945, SS men began the evacuation of the Auschwitz
camp. Approximately 56,000 prisoners – men and women marched,
under armed escort, from different parts of the Auschwitz camp
complex, towards Wodzisław Śląski and Gliwice. Thousands of
people, during the so-called Death Marches, lost their lives. Dr.
Jacek Lachendro and Teresa Wontor-Cichy from the Research Center
of the Auschwitz Museum talk about details of those tragic
events.


 


We wish to thank Jonathan Jetter from the Right Angle Productions
& Brooke Stocken for their help in production of the English
version of the podcast.