Historical dictionary of the Holocaust. Jack R. Fischel. 2014.
DEATH MARCHES — DEATH MARCHES, name given by prison inmates and retained by historians to the forced evacuations on foot of concentration and slave labor camps in the winter of 1944–45. With the onset of winter and Allied armies closing in on the Nazi… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Death marches (Holocaust) — Dachau concentration camp inmates on a death march through a German village in April 1945.[1][2] The death marches refer to the forcible movement between Autumn 1944 and late April 1945 by Nazi Germ … Wikipedia
Sandakan Death Marches — The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches from Sandakan to Ranau which resulted in the deaths of more than 3,600 Indonesian civilian slave labourers and 2,400 Allied prisoners of war held captive by the Empire of Japan during the … Wikipedia
Death march (disambiguation) — Death march may refer to: Death march, forced march of prisoners Death marches (Holocaust), death marches of concentration camp prisoners in 1944 and 1945 Death march (project management), a project that involves grueling overwork and (often)… … Wikipedia
Death march — For other uses, see Death march (disambiguation). A death march is a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees. Those marching must walk over long distances for an extremely long period of time and are not supplied with food … Wikipedia
Death march (project management) — This article is about the use of the term in project management (originally and especially in software development). For real death marches, see death march. In project management, a death march is any of several types of pathologic projects… … Wikipedia
Death Camps — The extermination or death camps were constructed in Poland for the primary purpose of killing Jews and other targets of Nazi Germany. The camps built for this purpose were AuschwitzBirkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka.… … Historical dictionary of the Holocaust
Marches — Mark from the Old English mearc and march (or various plural forms of these words) derived from the Frankish word marka ( boundary ) [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mark Online Etymology Dictionary ] ] , refer to a border region, e.g.… … Wikipedia
Death march (software development) — In the software development and software engineering industries, a death march is a dysphemism for a project that is destined to fail. Usually it is a result of unrealistic or overly optimistic expectations in scheduling, feature scope, or both,… … Wikipedia
Bataan Death March — The Bataan Death March (also known as The Death March of Bataan ) took place in the Philippines in 1942 and was later accounted as a Japanese war crime. The 60 mile (97 km) march occurred after the three month Battle of Bataan, part of the Battle … Wikipedia
