But that is exactly how Menachem Rosensaft views Bergen-Belsen. For it was here, in the displaced persons camp set up after World War II, that the longtime activist for Holocaust remembrance was born.
He went on to fight at Nijmegen during Operation Market Garden, was one of the first to cross the Rhine into Germany and helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Sergeant Major Lines ...
What They Found will air on BBC Two and iPlayer in April to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the notorious camp ...
With most survivors well into their 80s and 90s, some observers worry that Holocaust remembrance, even in Germany, is becoming empty and perfunctory. LOHHEIDE, Germany (JTA) — At the former ...
Renee Salt told Sky News’ Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips that the Nazis had stopped counting people by the time she arrived in Bergen-Belsen as a teenager because people were dying so rapidly.