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What we must learn from Holocaust survivors, before it’s too late
When Allied forces liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, even the horrors of World War II had not prepared the soldiers for what they saw.
- RN – By Simon Leo Brown for The Roundtable with Hugh Riminton
- ABC
“They vomited, they fainted and they cried like children,” said Olga Horak, then a prisoner who had survived Auschwitz and the death march to Bergen-Belsen.
“We were already emaciated, skeletal figures. I was 29 kilos. I was together with my mum, who was only 39 years old.”
Ms Horak was…