The catalogue for the 2021 inaugural exhibition of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership, Death Marches: Evidence and Memory, by Dr Christine Schmidt and Professor Dan Stone
Towards the end of the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of prisoners still held within the Nazi camp system were forcibly evacuated in terrible conditions under heavy guard. Many of these chaotic and brutal evacuations became known as ‘death marches’ by those who endured them. They form the last chapter of Nazi genocide.
This catalogue uncovers how forensic and other evidence about the death marches has been gathered since the end of the Holocaust. It chronicles how researchers and others attempted to recover the death march routes – and those who did not survive them.