from stutthof, aronson was transferred to burggraben and worked in the danzig shipyards. in 1945, the germans again moved their jewish prisoners ahead of the ally advance. aronson was among one of the many groups of jews sent on death marches in the early months of 1945. his group made it to gotentov (near lauenberg), where they were liberated on march 10, 1945, by the russians.