Bergen-Belsen: Among graves, we were born

贝尔根-贝尔森:在墓碑之间,我们降临人世

The Documentary Podcast

2025-08-01

26 分钟
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Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany was the only camp liberated by the British Forces in April, 1945. Prior to that, over 50,000 people were murdered there. After liberation, the British Forces, alongside the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) set up another camp about 2km away, the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons (DP) Camp, the largest DP camp in Europe, where over 2,000 babies were born. Known as ‘Bergen-Belsen Babies’, Susan Schwartz and Karen Lasky were two of the many born there and still hold the label ‘stateless’ after their families were eventually accepted and immigrated to Canada. On the 80th anniversary of the liberation, survivors and Bergen-Belsen Babies gather for the week, trying to fill in the gaps of what happened to their families and reflect on their childhoods. This episode of The Documentary, comes to you from Heart and Soul, exploring personal approaches to spirituality from around the world.
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  • Look here.

  • As far as you can see, and what I've been told in my last few visits here,

  • is this was all the camp, the concentration camp.

  • And it's such a huge amount of land, but nothing exists anymore.

  • I mean, what I can see in front of me are just so many trees and shrubbery,

  • and it's very, very green.

  • It is.

  • And so all of this has been... planted over the last 80 years as well.

  • So, I mean, it's growth.

  • It's natural growth that's happened

  • since this whole area was devastated by the burning of the concentration camp after liberation.

  • I'm currently in Germany,

  • being guided around the grounds of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by a special person.