Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
28 (2000) 203-242
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Death marches
Abstract:
With the loss of the Eastern territories, and their reservoir of "Eastern workers", the Nazis, who had occupied Hungary in March 1944, began to deploy Hungarian Jews for various works. A network of labor camps was established in western Hungary and in lower Austria, some of them in order to construct border fortifications. In November 1944, the Arrow Cross government handed more than 76,000 Jews to the Germans "on loan." Conditions in the camps were dreadful - thousands of the conscripts died during their deployment. In March 1945, with the approach of the Red Army, "evacuation" of the labor camps commenced. Describes the main routes of the death marches from the Lower Danube area to Mauthausen. Thousands of Jewish prisoners perished - some were killed before the marches, being sick and unable to walk; others were killed en route by the SS guards and their Austrian and Hungarian helpers. Between 1945-55, a series of trials were held against those guilty of the mass murder of Hungarian Jewish laborers.
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