As the Soviet forces drew near from the east there was a desperate scramble to clear the concentration camps. On 28 April 1928 Ravensbrück was evacuated. The inmates were sent out on a Death March towards the west. Their paramilitary guards grew careless or themselves ran away: Lisl was able to escape with two comrades and hide out in the forest for three days and three nights. As the war ended, at the start of May 1945 Ravensbrück was liberated by the Red army and Lisl returned to help look after survivors who had been too sick to be sent out from the camp earlier.