Point of Death Marches(Holocaust)?
Yes, I knew that Nazis abandoned the camps and made the prisoners walk tons of miles and it killed allot of them, but were the Nazi's trying to kill them with these Marches or trying to save them?
HOW were the Jews persecuted during the Holocaust?
The persecution began with small things, relatively speaking--an acceptance of rudeness to Jews, escalating to physical assault, edging them out of public life, refusing them the protections and services given to "Aryans," and finally culminating in the death camps. I believe that trains were te usual transport, but don't think that the unfortunates headed for destinations such as Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and such were given seating. Rather, they were crowded into boxcars as if they were sardines in a can. Not surprisingly, people died of suffocation and dehydration during these journeys, which could sometimes take weeks, eepcially after the war began.
How long would it take to walk from one end of America to another, like from New York to California?
This is time spent walking. The average speed you get by dividing the mileage by the time is 3 miles an hour, which is about right for most of us.For trip time, you would have to add whatever time is needed for other things like eating and sleeping. Let’s say you can walk for 12 hours each day, racking up 36 miles per day on average. Dividing 36 into 2914 gives you 81 days. Walking 50 miles a day would give you 58 days.For comparison, the record for walking across the US is 53 and a half days, LA to NYC, a route which by Google Maps plotting is 148 miles shorter but the actual route was likely different from what Google maps selects.By comparison, the record for fastest transcontinental run is 42 days, 6 hours and 30 minutes, NY to SF, with the running route distance recorded as 3067 miles.Fastest bicycle crossing is 07:15:56. It took me three days to drive, sleeping in the vehicle at roadside rests.
Did Peter Van Daan survive the Holocaust?
Peter van Pels (November 8, 1926 – c May 5, 1945), was a German Jewish refugee who hid with Anne Frank and six other people in the Secret Annex on the Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, during the Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands, and who died in the Mauthausen concentration camp. In the published version of Anne Frank's diary he was given the pseudonym Peter van Daan. Following an anonymous betrayal, the eight refugees were arrested by the Gestapo on 4 August 1944. They were imprisoned in Amsterdam for several days before being taken to Westerbork on August 8, where they were held in the Punishment Barracks, reserved for those arrested in hiding. On 3 September the group was deported on what would be the last transport from Westerbork to the Auschwitz concentration camp. They arrived after a three-day journey, and were separated by gender, with the men and women never to see each other again. Peter, his father, Otto Frank, and Fritz Pfeffer were assigned to a forced labour group from which Hermann van Pels was selected for the gas chambers in September or October 1944, in a selection witnessed by Peter and by Otto Frank, who subsequently protected Peter during their period of imprisonment together. Evacuations from the camp started shortly before the Red Army arrived to liberate it on January 27, 1945, and Peter was among those removed. Otto Frank later recalled that he had urged Peter to hide and remain behind with him, rather than set out on the forced march. Peter decided that he would have a better chance of survival if he joined the march. It is not known whether Peter was included in the many death marches out of Auschwitz, or transported by train or truck, but he was registered in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp on January 25. According to the camp records he was placed in quarantine until January 29, then assigned to an outdoor labour group until April 11 when he was sent to the sick barracks. His death at the age of eighteen occurred at some point before the liberation of Mauthausen on May 8, 1945, but in the absence of a recorded date the Red Cross designated his date of death as May 5th.