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The author who had emigrated from Hamburg to Amsterdam, in August 1933, was deported to Bergen-Belsen with her family on 15 February 1944. She describes the horrible conditions of life in the camp in 1945. The food situation became completely disastrous; 75% of the men succumbed to the hunger, 25% of the women, the death-rate in general rose from one or two a day to thirty to forty (p.3—5).
The internees hoped to be sent on to neutral countries (p.3). French and English lessons (p.4). Vermin (p.5, 7) Occasional shower baths under the supervision of the SS. Two lavatories, twelve taps for 3,000 inmates, the water running only one hour a day. Cruel punishments (p.5-6). Austrian Heimwehr more humane than SS (p.6). Not all SS-men equally cruel, but after having been removed for some months completely changed at return (p.5). This report describes the evacuation of the camp under appalling conditions in April 1945; many casualties (6,7). From 10-23 April, horrible transport in wagons just left by forced labourers from the East, most of them suffering from typhoid fever (p.7-8, 11). The order to blow up the train, in the end, was not obeyed, but 700 - 800 died on this journey (p.7-9).
On 24 April they were liberated by the Russians at Tröbitz a.d. Lusatia (p.10). For the following eight weeks, the author lived at the nearby Schilda with her youngest son, then taken ill with typhoid fever. He was the only surviving member of her family, after her husband and two sons had died in the camps. Then, they were transferred to American barracks at Leipzig and on their way back to Amsterdam to an N.S.B. camp (for Dutch Nazis), to Manvelis a camp for German Jews and non-Jews and a quarantine camp (p.11).
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