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- Arek was placed in a children’s barrack for a few months before he and three thousand others were loaded onto open wagons on 7 April 1945. Only 600 survived the month-long journey to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia. Arek was liberated by the Russian army on 8 May 1945.
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He was eventually liberated at Theresienstadt (Terezin, Czechoslovakia) on 8 May 1945 by the Soviet Army. There were 5,000 Jews in his town but only 40 of them came out alive. [4]
Arek began his march just 9 days before Auschwitz was liberated on the 27 th of January 1945. They were marched through freezing conditions, with no food or rest. Those who lagged behind were shot.
Arek Hersh. Born in Poland, Arek was imprisoned in Łódz ghetto and later at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Arek survived a death march before finally being liberated from Theresienstadt in 1945. He was then sent to Britain as one of the “Windermere Boys”.
Arek survived his time in two ghettos and several Concentration Camps, before being liberated at age 16. Almost all of his family were murdered. Arek now shares his testimony and does everything he can to counter assertions that the Holocaust was just a ‘detail of history’.
On 8 May 1945, he was liberated by the Russians and by 14 May he was on a Lancaster bomber heading for England. He settled in the UK and made Yorkshire his home with his wife Jean. He later discovered that only 40 people from his hometown survived the war.
He, and the other inhabitants of the ghetto, were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was sent on a death march to Buchenwald on the 18th of January 1945, from there he was sent in April 1945 on a long journey to Theresienstadt, arriving on the 4th of May 1945. He was liberated four days later.
In April he and 3000 other people were taken to the city of Weimar in Germany, loaded onto open wagons and sent off on a month-long rail journey to Theresienstadt. Many people died on the train. Arek was one of the 600 who arrived alive in Czechoslovakia on 8 May 1945. There they were liberated by the Russian army.
