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Tragic March Of Concentration Camp Inmates

The Opole region in the south is observing the 60th anniversary of the March of The Dead – the tragic evacuation of Nazi German concentration camp prisoners in the final months of World War Two. The events are marked in Konradow on the Polish side and in Mikulovice across the Czech border. Thousands of exhausted and disease stricken inmates died along the route of this mass evacuation. Their abandoned bodies, often in hundreds, had been later buried by local inhabitants in nearby cemeteries. A special memorial service is being held in the evening in Konradow with the participation of some of the few survivors of the ordeal of 60 years ago.

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