Category:Liberation of Bergen-Belsen (subject)

The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen occurred on April 15, 1945.

British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945. Thousands of bodies lay unburied around the camp and some 60,000 starving and mortally ill people were packed together without food, water or basic sanitation. The British Army immediately began to organize the relief effort.

Around 1,000 children were among the thousands of inmates who arrived at Bergen-Belsen in the last weeks of the war. Conditions were desperate because of hunger and disease. 50% of the children perished (including Anne Frank. Around 500 children were found alive.

Noticeable child victims

• Anne Frank (F / Netherlands, 1929-1945), Holocaust victim
• Rywka Lipszyc (F / Poland, 1929-1945), Holocaust victim

The child survivors

• Israel Zalek Blufarb (M / Poland / Germany, 1945), Holocaust survivor - 23 Feb 1945 Bergen-Belsen

• Wojciech Ciesielski (M / Poland / Germany, 1945), Holocaust survivor - 14 Apr 1945 Bergen-Belsen

• Kiwa Dancygier (M / Poland / Germany, 1945), Holocaust survivor - 8 Mar 1945 Bergen-Belsen

• Bluma Fliesswasser (F / Poland, 1928), Holocaust survivor - 2 Feb 1928 Jaroslaw, Poland

• Alicja Gozdzikowska (F / Poland / Germany, 1945), Holocaust survivor - 14 Apr 1945 Bergen-Belsen <non-Jewish?>

• Feiga Pearl Horyn (F / Poland? / Germany, 1945), Holocaust survivor - 24 Mar 1945 Bergen-Belsen

• Erzsebet Leibowitz (F / Poland, 1928), Holocaust survivor - 29 Jul 1928 Kosice, Poland (from Feb 44)

• Helen Lebowitz (F / Poland, 1928), Holocaust survivor - 29 Jul 1928 Volosianka, Poland (from 45)

• Stella Levinska (F / Poland, 1931), Holocaust survivor - 21 Jul 1931 Lodz, Poland (from feb 45)

• Miriam Weisz (F / Romania, 1926), Holocaust survivor - 8 Mar 1926 Gherla, Romania (from 12 Apr 45)
• Rella Ica Weisz (F / Romania, 1932), Holocaust survivor - 21 Nov 1932 Gherla, Romania (from 12 Apr 45)

• Edward Wierzchowski (M / Poland / Germany, 1945), Holocaust survivor - 5 Apr 1945 Bergen-Belsen

Noticeable child survivors (liberated at Bergen-Belsen by the British)

• Miriam Akavia (Poland, 1927-2015)
• Rudy Kennedy (Poland, 1927-2008)
• Zuzana Růžičková (1927-2017).
• Simone Veil (1927-2017)

• Isabelle Choko (Polnad, 1928) from Lodz Ghetto
• David Faber (Poland, 1928-2015)

• Martin Adler (Czechia, 1929-2007)
• Alice Lok Cahana (Hungary, 1929-2017)
• Nanette Blitz Konig (Netherlands, 1929)
• Renee Salt (Poland, 1929)

• Hetty Verolme (Belgium, 1931) <Children's House>

• Edith Bruck (b.1932)

• Coby Lubliner (Poland, 1935)
• Tomi Reichental (b.1935)

• Ivan Lefkovits (Slovakia, 1937)

• Julius Maslovat (Poland, 1942)

Memoirs

• Tomi Reichental, I Was a Boy in Belsen (2011).

• Nanette Blitz Konig, Eu Sobrevivi ao Holocausto (2015) / ET: Holocaust Memoirs of a Bergen-Belsen Survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank (2018).

• Zuzana Růžičková , One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival (2019).