May 6, 2022
#OnThisDay 6 March 1945, the US Army liberated the town of Volary, including 118 women who survived the death march to Volary. Beginning in January 1945, approximately 1,000 women were forced on a death march lasting 106 days, covering a distance of over 800 kilometers (roughly 500 miles). The women endured 106 days of gnawing hunger and sickness, humiliation, abuse, and murder, as they marched through the snow and wretched conditions. Upon arriving in Volary on day 104 of the death march, 140 women were confined in a shack, as they were too weak to continue on foot. 20 women perished before the Americans arrived, and two more on the day that they came.
Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors
