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"The minute the gates opened up, we heard screams, barking of dogs."

"I would never believe that a person can survive standing in the outside in the wintertime without clothes for so long."

"It ended up being called the death march, because the ravines and the gutters, they were all red from blood."

"'Our courage is not shackled/ Life is marvelously beautiful…'"

"I would never believe that a person can survive standing in the outside in the wintertime without clothes for so long."
Doriane Kurz

Born 1936
Vienna, Austria

Recalls Bergen-Belsen prisoners hauling wagons of corpses
Oral History
Ernest Koenig

Born 1917
Vienna, Austria

Describes reaching the verge of death while in a subcamp of Auschwitz.
Oral History
Eddie Hellmuth Willner

Born 1926
Muenchen-Gladbach, Germany

Describes conditions in Langenstein
Oral History
Leo Schneiderman

Born 1921
Lodz, Poland

Describes routine at the Ebensee camp
Oral History

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"It ended up being called the death march, because the ravines and the gutters, they were all red from blood."
Thomas Buergenthal

Born May 11, 1934
Lubochna, Czechoslovakia

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Lily Mazur Margules

Born 1924
Vilna

Describes death march from a labor camp near Stutthof
Oral History
Lilly Appelbaum Malnik

Born 1928
Antwerp, Belgium

Describes death march from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen
Oral History
Fritzie Weiss Fritzshall

Born 1929
Klucarky, Czechoslovakia

Describes the death march from Auschwitz
Oral History
Steven Springfield

Born 1923
Riga, Latvia

Describes 1945 death march from Stutthof camp system (Burggraben camp)
Oral History

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