09-05-2025
How a little-known Japanese American battalion freed Jews from a Nazi death march
WAAKIRCHEN, Germany — Eighty years ago, Abba Naor was among several thousand Jews and other prisoners evacuated from Nazi concentration camps and forced to walk for days on the notorious Dachau death march — without food or water, often in freezing temperatures. Many perished on the way.
On the eighth night, as snow fell and covered the exhausted prisoners, their SS guards — fearing the fast-approaching Allies — vanished.
