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  • 6/21/2025
An eyewitness documentary, featuring interviews with five Jewish survivors, a cameraman who recorded the camp’s libera | dG1fb0NHRU1JV0NQcW8
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00:00People who talked about Auschwitz, of course, but there were so many other camps and Bergen-Belsen
00:20was surely one of the worst. They didn't need to have gas chambers there.
00:30But all these people, there were 60,000 people in the area of Scheef football fields.
00:40Even as a name of a place, Belsen is a very complex phenomenon.
00:47No food, no water. There was no water there.
01:00The group I was with were instructed to go into any prisoner of war camp that they could find.
01:18Belsen was the last one that we came into.
01:21And he knew what's waiting for him. What you will see here, you've never seen in your life. Be prepared.
01:28The bodies, when they tipped them out of their trucks, fall over and move as though they were moving into the pit.
01:38One of the troops came up to me and said I was crazy doing the drawings and no one would believe them.
01:44So every time I drew something, I would take a photograph.
01:48But for the photos and the language, who will see them? There is no world out there.
01:53I had typhus, I had cholera, I had diphtheria, I had scarlet fever.
02:00I was dancing with angels up there. It took a minute to also, just not to wake up.
02:07Liberation.
02:10I mean, thinking of Ellen, the sick ones got somehow crawling to him and looking at him.
02:17And he's the angel, he's from heaven.
02:21And in a sudden he's like, this man says that he's going to get some power stuff.
02:23And he's like, I'm not a man of my head, but I'm just a man of my head.
02:26And he chairs that he's like this guy.
02:28And he's like, I mean, and I think that's what he has in here.
02:30And he does that.
02:31And I think he's like that guy.
02:33It's like a guy changing his life.
02:34Like how he's going to happen.
02:35And he's like, he's like, I'm not a person trying to figure out what I'm like.
02:37And that guy's like.
02:39He's like, he's like, I'm like, I'm like, he goes.
02:43And he's like, I'm like, I'm like, my kid.
02:47I'm like, I'm not.

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