Survivors Testimonies of the Holocaust

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OCR: The Gerrnan government established Bergen-Beisen transit camp iri July 1943 in a forest centra Ge rmany was bullt hold 8,000 inmates any given time, mostly prisoners of war and Jews on their way tc death camps in Poland. In the winter 1944 to 1945 35 the Germans evacuated camps closer to the warfi ront it became destina tion point for thousa ands prisoners on death marcl hes. By the time Sol and his fath her arrived in March 1945. 100,000 nen women and children were prisoner in the small camp Bergen -Belsen's German guards, concerned with their own survival, stopped attending their prisoners as the British Army approached After the prisoners ran out of food, watel supplies became contami inated and typhus spread out of contral. the months before liberation, 57 000 people died at Bergen -Be ...