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In Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Charles Brusselairs could already hear the approaching Red Army when the SS cleared the camp in a frenzy. The inmates were forced to set out westward on foot through snow and ice. In February they reached the Ettersberg in open goods wagons. The young Belgian had been deported to Germany for distributing leaflets for the resistance and helping people flee. He was a “Night and Fog” inmate; his parents did not receive any information about his fate. He had to leave Buchenwald again in early April 1945 on a death march. It would be another four weeks before he was liberated. After several months in various sanatoria, he returned to Belgium in 1946.
