Item description
Description
- Title:
- Anonymous account of a visit to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation to collect eyewitness accounts
- Summary:
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A report on a visit to Bergen-Belsen in summer 1945. The information is given by a doctor and his wife from Poland and some nurses on the horrible fate of the children (p.1-2), the final transport to Bergen-Belsen of the doctor's wife together with many others (p.2-3), the greater strength of the women in comparison with the men (p.3), and the appalling conditions in camp-hospitals (p.3-4). At Buchenwald 20,000 Jewish prisoners should have been killed in the last days of the war but the political prisoners helped 3,500 to survive by hiding them everywhere. (p.4).
- Number of pages:
- 6 pieces
- Date(s):
- 1945
- Catalogue ID:
- 105858
- Reference number:
- 1656/3/8/566
- Language:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1939-1945
- Type of Material:
- Eyewitness account