Henryk Mandelbaum was a Polish Holocaust survivor. He was one of the prisoners in the Sonderkommando KL Auschwitz-Birkenau in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who worked in the crematory. Onl
Sonderkommando Heryk Mandelbaum & translator
During the Holocaust, death marches were massive forced transfers of prisoners from one Nazi camp to other locations, which involved walking long distances resulting in numerous deaths of weakened peo
Henryk Mandelbaum
…451 of the inmates were shot or hanged. This was the third rebellion in a camp after Treblinka (2 August 1943) and Sobibor (14 October 1943). On a death march from Auschwitz to Loslau in January 1945, he was able to flee. He escaped wearing civilian clothes and hid on a farm for three weeks. After the liberation…
Dachau concentration camp inmates on a death march, photographed on 28 April 1945 by Benno Gantner from his balcony in Percha. The prisoners were heading in the direction of Wolfratshausen.
Victims of a death march (via train) from Buchenwald to Dachau, 29 April 1945
German civilians, under direction of U.S. medical officers, walk past a group of 30 Jewish women starved to death (Volary, Czechoslovakia) 1945
Memorial in Wodzisław Śląski of the death march from Auschwitz Birkenau