(Jewish Group) At Bergen-Belsen, an activist born in DP camp commemorates loss and life
One might not associate the term “concentration camp” with life. But that is exactly how Menachem Rosensaft views Bergen-Belsen.
For it was here, in the displaced persons camp set up after World War II, that the longtime activist for Holocaust remembrance was born.
There, survivors — including Rosensaft’s parents, Josef Rosensaft and Hadassah Bimko — “returned to being human beings rather than brutalized victims, humans with hopes and aspirations, who were able to resume dreaming rather than endure nightmares,” said Rosensaft, 74, associate executive vice president and general counsel of the World Jewish Congress.
Rosensaft accompanied Israeli President Isaac Herzog and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on their visit to the site in the northern German state of Lower Saxony on Tuesday.
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This is a part of Holocaust history MOST people, including a number of Jews, do not know about or know very little. The Displaced Persons camps were set up after the war, in some cases in actual Nazi death camps, for almost 6 years! I highly suggest reading,
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War by David Nasaw.