March 21, 1945 Holocaust: "For many of those on the death marches,
March 21, 1945 Holocaust: "For many of those on the death marches, the distance they were from the Red Army could be calculated only by the sound of distant artillery fire, as their German guards drove them further and further away from the front line. When the Red Army drew too near, the marchers would be put in trains. Aliza Besser, one of the two hundred survivors of the thousand Jewish women who had marched on foot from the camp at Neusalz to Flossenberg, was among those who were sent on the next stage of their horrendous journey, by sealed cattle truck, they knew not where. On March 21, after three days and nights in the train, she noted: > It's almost a week already that we are in the trucks. No water. They die of thirst. Lips are parched. Every other day they give a few cups of water, occasionally they bring a bucket of water which is intended for seventy people. There's nothing with which to take the water. There are only a few cups in every truck, and...