US Army veteran Kurt Klein talks about a US Army officer’s first encounter with Nazi atrocities

US Army veteran Kurt Klein talks about a US Army officer’s first encounter with Nazi atrocities

On 20 January 1945, approximately 1000 female Jewish prisoners were evacuated from the Schlesiersee (today Sława) camp in Upper Silesia, western Poland, a region annexed to Germany. These women were forced on a death march in a southwesterly direction. On the way, the prisoners passed through other camps, and more women were added to the march.
On 5 May 1945, after covering a distance of over 800 km, the march ended in the town of Volary (German: Wallern) in Czechoslovakia, not far from the border with Germany and Austria.
Of the approximately 1,300 women who marched to Volary, some 350 survived. .
Video Credit: USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education