Liberator and Liberated
Liberator and liberated
by Barbara Wind
the director of the Holocaust Council of MetroWest and the author of Walking on Ash.
Special to NJ Jewish News
After Daybreak: The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen 1945
by Ben Shephard,
Shocken Books: November 2005, 274 pages, photos, $25
Yesterday: My Story
by Hadassah Bimko Rosensaft,
USHMM: November 2005, paperback, 207 pages, photos, $15.95
Ben Shephard, a producer of Thames TVâs World at War, has written a clear and concise history of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by British troops. Of all the concentration camps scattered throughout Europe â and there were more than 15,000 of them â Bergen-Belsen was unusual for a number of reasons. First, it was a transit camp. Established in May 1943 after the Battle of Stalingrad, when most Germans understood that they had, in all probability, lost the war, it was intended as a âcivilian internment campâ? for those who were privileged to have âimportant foreign connections.â?
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