Sentence examples for surviving captives from inspiring English sources

Many died on the trek; the surviving captives were eventually ransomed.The village was rebuilt and became a rich farm town.

By September Warzok and his men were reassigned to the front, and Wiesenthal and the other surviving captives were sent to the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp.

Hertel de Rouville's band killed or took prisoner many of the townsfolk, returning to Canada on a difficult trek in which a number of the prisoners died; many of the surviving captives were adopted into Indian communities afterward.

There is little information available concerning the lifespan of wild black mambas, but the longest surviving captive example had a recorded lifespan of 11 years.

As zoos in Toronto and Columbus, Ohio continue to provide intensive care to surviving captive-born polar bear cubs, the larger zoo community continues to advance efforts to build an insurance population in the event that climate change renders the Arctic inhospitable to polar bears.

Elephants struggle to reproduce and even survive in captive breeding facilities, and are struggling to maintain their own populations in their native habitat.

Human impacts caused the latter two to go extinct in the wild, although they survived in captive breeding programs.

The remnants of the German Sixth Army some 91,000 men out of an army of 285,000 surrendered in early February 1943; only 5,000 of these captives survived the Russian prisoner of war camps to see Germany again.

The 82 surviving crewmen were taken captive and classified documents were seized despite a frantic effort by the Pueblo's crew to destroy all secret materials.

About 50 captives survive.

Their capture by the Northern Alliance was followed by a gruelling journey through Afghanistan in lorry containers, which only 20 of the 200 captives survived.