Edzia Littmann

Drohobycz, Galicia

The evacuation of prisoners from the Stutthof camp system began on 25 January 1945. When the final evacuation began, there were nearly 50,000 prisoners, the majority of them Jews, in the Stutthof camp system.

About 5,000 prisoners from Stutthof subcamps were marched to the Baltic Sea coast, forced into the water, and machine-gunned. In late 1945, the remaining prisoners were removed from Stutthof by sea. Over 4,000 were sent by small boat to Germany, where many drowned along the way.