The Death Marches

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The opening of this track, in Jewish History Soundbites’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Amer out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn parent I say 1 million Jewish children who were made to [Music] beut th whoever heard such beautiful words it is never too little it is never words it is never too little it is never too late and it is Never Enough Jewish history sound bites bringing alive the world of our glorious past here is our host live from Jerusalem gabri with Jewish history sound bites and this episode timely which um right before Tisha over the nine days so we take on more um you know serious or sad or tragic topics um and of course uh anything related to the Holocaust fits into that related to the Holocaust fits into that category so today we'll talk about the death marches a important story and um and very misunderstood story in the context of the Holocaust um focusing obviously on the death marches at the end of the war uh the marches that the SS forc H um concentration camp inmates to undertake um from concentration camps in undertake um from concentration camps in the East towards concentration camps in Germany that's that's the uh death marches that we're referring to now the reason it's an important topic is because in the collective memory of the Holocaust it seems to have made quite an impact Survivor testimonies are full of descriptions usually incredibly awful descriptions of the um death marches the cruelty the sism and the tragedy uh that took place on the death marches and also

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1. 1:03Amer out of the 24 who were killed were Americans who had come to learn parent…
2. 5:15SS lead concentration camp inmates from concentration camps in the East towards the West towards concentration…
3. 9:57a large majority of the inmates on these death marches were Jews so that's the that's…
4. 14:33who I who I know and I heard lectures on this topic from and of course…
5. 19:13therefore when the Red Army would come and Liberate the camps they would find piles and…
6. 23:51even though by this time it didn't make sense even though they weren't provided with trains…
7. 28:31already opened by the Soviets in the museum is up and running already having tourists come…
8. 33:07try to escape um where were they going to escape to Starving in middle of the…
9. 37:45of his life he didn't know he didn't know if he should if he leaves his…
10. 42:22to our ancient historical Homeland to the land of Israel to ER Isel and when you…

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