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OCR: Ir 1944 and 1945 as the Allies advanced on German positions German authorities scrambied to hide the evidence of the Holocaust They ordered various concentration camps and death camps dismantied, and sent the surviving prisoners of these camps on forced evacuations known death marches Tens of thousands of prisoners were evacuated on foot or transported in open raiiroad cars iocations ceener within German territory Most prisoners marched in mid-winter with littie or no podj or water. Among these were Sol, his father and his uncie who were sent on nearly 300-mile march from Erlenbusch to Bergen-Belsen. Bert was evacuated by foot, days before the end of the war, from Stutthof to the Baltic Sea Approximately 400,000 concentration camp and death camp inmates were sent on these marches those 250 ...