Bergen-Belsen | From the concentration camp to the memorial
They were places of the most insane nightmares that continued even after waking, places where blood froze in one’s veins from sheer horror, places where only the eyes could scream with the loudest fear, places where the word “humanity” completely disappeared from the vocabulary.
One such place is the Bergen-Belsen Memorial, the former concentration camp in Lower Saxony. Between 1943 and 1945, around 110,000 people perished here, including at least 1,800 Roma and Sinti, mostly from Germany, Austria, and Hungary. After a long journey of persecution and suffering from other camps, they finally reached this one.
Pavla Rašnerová’s Interview with Stephanie Billib from the Bergen-Belsen Memorial is available in the current program Roma sam with Susanne Horvath. The Interview is by Radio Orf .
