1944
The Bergen-Belsen camp is a slaughterhouse. Thousands of people are murdered daily by the SS, the corpses stacked in hugh piles. The conditions are incredible. There is hardly any food and water. People cannot wash or change clothes and are full of lice. Thousands die of typhoid. Those who do not die of the disease are given an injection into their thin arms by the SS shortly before the war ends.
For days and weeks Sara has to stand for roll call at Bergen-Belsen in the freezing cold for hours on end. In front of the windows of her barracks, "the Hungarian House," corpses pile up in high mounds.
Sara: “They stole my childhood from me in Bergen-Belsen. We knew no joy or children's birthday parties and played alongside piles of corpses.“
