death march

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Taken prisoner, he survived concentration camps and a death march before the end of World War II.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

That will include meeting Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg, aged 94, who experienced concentration camps and a death march.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2025

But watching them is hardly a death march — they're often sarcastic and focused on the weirder details of her former life, such as being told that girls and women never need haircuts:

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2024

In March 1945, only weeks before the end of World War II, she managed to escape on a so-called death march taking concentration camp inmates to the west as Soviet soldiers approached from the east.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023

There was a slow drumbeat playing like a death march from the altar.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat