The Lily of Birkenau: The Writings of Lili Kasticher
The Lily of Birkenau: The Writings of Lili Kasticher

Author(s): Lily Halpert Zamir
Subject(s): History, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Holocaust ; Auschwitz; Death Marches; Sonderkommando ; Nazi oppression
Summary/Abstract: Auschwitz, the largest and best-known of the Nazi concentration camps, was built in 1940 when the Nazis realized that they had more prisoners than prison space. It was liberated by the Red Army on January 27, 1945. Nine days earlier, as Soviet troops drew closer, all inmates capable of walking – 48,342 men and about 16,000 women, along with another 96 prisoners of war – were dispatched on foot via Austria to other locations in Nazi-occupied Europe. These evacuation campaigns would later be known as Death Marches. About 6,000 inmates who were too weak to march were left to die in Auschwitz-Birkenau, including some 4,000 women. The last of the Nazis left the camp on January 24, three days before its liberation.

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