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.

The Children House of Belsen (Bergen-Belsen Kinderbaracke)

In the last months of the camp, Luba Tryszynska rounded up 54 (46) Dutch children, none older than 14, who had come to the camp without their parents. Thanks to her personal crusade to keep them alive, 52 (44) survived until the camp in northern Germany was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945.

With them was also a group of around 15 children from Poland and Slovakia, including Coby Lubliner and Yidele Henechowicz, and a group or pregnant women.

• Hetty Verolme / Esther Werkendam (1930)
• Samuel Max Werkendam (1931) "Max"
• Zadok Werkendam (1933) "Jack"

• Jack Cohen-Rodriguez (1930) Westerbork Bergene-Belsen
• Gerry Lakmaker (1933) ?

Noticeable child victims

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

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).